Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
30 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to FTC Solar, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
30
30 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
3
Against 3 in 2024 and 10 in 2023
Applications published
25
3 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Mechanical elements7
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy6
Thermal processes and apparatus6
Measurement3
Control3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
FTC Solar, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedFTC Solar, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
25 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 4, 2025 | 12,463,582 | Solar tracker system including a cable system | Thermal processes and apparatus | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,375,027 | Systems for damping a solar photovoltaic array tracker | Mechanical elements | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 12,334,863 | Tracking systems for adjusting a photovoltaic array | Thermal processes and apparatus | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| May 14, 2024 | 11,984,842 | Solar tracker systems and methods including a rail assembly | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Mar 19, 2024 | 11,936,334 | Solar tracker system including a frame assembly | Thermal processes and apparatus | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Jan 30, 2024 | 11,888,435 | Systems and methods for array level terrain based backtracking | Measurement | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Nov 28, 2023 | 11,831,273 | Solar tracker system including a cable system | Thermal processes and apparatus | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Nov 21, 2023 | 11,824,488 | Systems and methods for adaptive range of motion for solar trackers | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Nov 14, 2023 | 11,817,815 | Systems for damping a solar photovoltaic array tracker | Mechanical elements | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Oct 3, 2023 | 11,777,443 | Systems and methods for terrain based backtracking for solar trackers | Control | FTC Solar, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 11, 2025 | 2025/0286503 | TRACKING SYSTEMS FOR ADJUSTING A PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY | Thermal processes and apparatus | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Mar 13, 2025 | 2025/0088141 | SOLAR TRACKER SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING A PANEL MOUNTING ASSEMBLY | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Jan 2, 2025 | 2025/0007448 | SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY TRACKER HAVING AXIALLY OFFSET PANEL SECTIONS | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Aug 22, 2024 | 2024/0283392 | SOLAR TRACKER SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING A RAIL ASSEMBLY | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Feb 29, 2024 | 2024/0072722 | SYSTEMS FOR DAMPING A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY TRACKER | Mechanical elements | FTC Solar, Inc. |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 2024/0048092 | SOLAR TRACKER SYSTEM INCLUDING A CABLE SYSTEM | Thermal processes and apparatus | FTC Solar, Inc. · patent 12,463,582 granted from it |
| Nov 9, 2023 | 2023/0361715 | SOLAR TRACKER SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING A RAIL ASSEMBLY | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | FTC Solar, Inc. · patent 11,984,842 granted from it |
| Oct 5, 2023 | 2023/0318525 | TRACKING SYSTEMS FOR ADJUSTING A PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY | Thermal processes and apparatus | FTC Solar, Inc. · patent 12,334,863 granted from it |
| Jul 13, 2023 | 2023/0223893 | SYSTEMS FOR DAMPING A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY TRACKER | Mechanical elements | FTC Solar, Inc. · patent 12,375,027 granted from it |
| Jun 22, 2023 | 2023/0198459 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARRAY LEVEL TERRAIN BASED BACKTRACKING | Measurement | FTC Solar, Inc. · patent 11,888,435 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 3 · Thermal processes and apparatus 2 · Mechanical elements 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.