Textured solar panel Patent Grant Lance , et al. June 7, 2 [SUNPOWER CORPORATION]

Textured solar panel

Lance , et al. June 7, 2

Patent Grant D953972

U.S. patent number D953,972 [Application Number D/788,756] was granted by the patent office on 2022-06-07 for textured solar panel. This patent grant is currently assigned to SUNPOWER CORPORATION. The grantee listed for this patent is SUNPOWER CORPORATION. Invention is credited to Hikaru Iwasaka, Alexander Keller, Tamir Lance, Laurence Mackler, David Okawa, Ryan Reagan, Brian Wares.

United States Patent	D953,972
Lance , et al.	June 7, 2022

Textured solar panel

Claims

CLAIM The ornamental design for a textured solar panel, as shown and described.

Inventors:

Lance; Tamir (Los Gatos, CA), Okawa; David (Belmont, CA), Reagan; Ryan (Fremont, CA), Wares; Brian (Sacramento, CA), Mackler; Laurence (Corte Madera, CA), Iwasaka; Hikaru (New York, NY), Keller; Alexander (Boston, MA)

Applicant:

Name	City	State	Country	Type
SUNPOWER CORPORATION	San Jose	CA	US

Assignee:

SUNPOWER CORPORATION (San Jose, CA)

Family ID:

69807355

Appl. No.:

D/788,756

Filed:

July 27, 2021

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Application Number	Filing Date	Patent Number	Issue Date
29744231	Jul 28, 2020	D928079
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29649785	Mar 24, 2020	D879031

Current U.S. Class:	D13/102
Current CPC Class:	Y02E10/50 20130101
Current International Class:	1302
Field of Search:	;D10/104.1 ;D13/101,102,103,107,109,118,119,184,199 ;D14/371,432,439,441,447,451 ;D21/480,484 ;D25/109,140,144

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Primary Examiner: Matharu; Manpreet S
Assistant Examiner: Tisdell; Suzanne E
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Description

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a eleventh embodiment of a textured solar panel;

FIG. 2 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a front, bottom, and left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged view of the section indicated by callout circle 8 in FIG. 7; and,

FIG. 9 is a further enlarged view of the section indicated by callout circle 9 in FIG. 8.

The evenly spaced broken lines shown in the figures are for the purpose of illustrating portions of the textured solar panel that form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dash lines in the figures form a circle and lead line ending in a number that corresponds to the area shown in the figure having that number. The dot-dash lines form no part of the claimed design.

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