Royalty Report: Solar, Energy & Environment, Energy Resources & Svcs – Collection: 282958

License Grant

Licensor, a non-profit corporation affiliated with the University, hereby grants to Licensee for the term of this Agreement a non-exclusive, non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense except to Affiliates, under the Licensed Patents, to make, have made, use, and sell Licensed Products throughout the world.

License Property

Licensor has certain intellectual property related to a means of manufacturing solar cells, modules and arrays based on CulnGaSe2 and related materials encompassing; a multi-source physical vapor deposition process to form the CulnGaSe2 on a continuously moving substrate;  a method to coat a substrate with a metal that eliminates cracking and poor adhesion of the CulnGaSe2 layer; and, a process to deposit a CdS layer, all useful for production of photovoltaic conversion cells, modules, and arrays.

Licensed Products shall mean any solar cell, module, and/or array constituting an apparatus or article for the generation of electricity, characterized by a power rating in watts determined under standard conditions.

Field of Use

The licensed technology is relevant to the production of photovoltaic conversion cells, modules and arrays.  Licensee intends  to make, use, and sell products comprising solar cells, modules, and/or arrays which can be prepared using the intellectual property.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants to Licensee a license to make, have made for the Licensee for subsequent use or sale by the Licensee, offer for sale, sell, use, import and export the Products in the field of solar energy, in the Territory under the Patents and the Technical Information. This license is exclusive subject to the following terms: In regard to certain of the patents.  Patents include Photovoltaic device assembly and method; Support structure for solar module and Connector system for photovoltaic array.  Licensor also grants a royalty-free use of the Trademarks solely in connection with the manufacture, promotion, use, sale of the Products in the Territory.  Trademark is “POWERHOUSE”.

License Property

Licensor has been engaged in the research and development of photovoltaic shingles and ancillary products and owns specialized knowledge, information, experience, patents and patent applications relating to the manufacture and use of products for use in the photovoltaic generation of solar energy.

Field of Use

Licensee is desirous of manufacturing, using and selling photovoltaic shingles and ancillary products and services products.

License Grant

The United Kingdom Licensor desires to grant a license to certain Licensor technology, know-how, plans and designs related to:
(1) the manufacture of SiC Fiber for use in the PV Field, which license shall be exclusive inside the PV Field, and
(2) the construction and operation of a SiC Fiber factory and perform related knowledge transfer and other services on behalf of Licensee.

Licensor grants an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable right and license under the Licensor IP within the PV Field only to:
(i) Exploit SiC Fiber,
(ii) Construct and/or Operate the Licensee Facilities and
(iii) copy, distribute, display, perform and modify the Licensor IP for the purpose of engaging in the activities described.
The license granted shall be exclusive, even as to Licensor and its Affiliates, in the PV Field.

License Property

The patents include SIC base CVD process using CO2, and, C coating process.  SiC Fiber means a mono filament produced by the growth of silicon carbide on a substrate filament by chemical vapor deposition, being monofilaments usually greater than 70 microns diameter.

SiC Fiber is a 10 µm diameter crystalline silicon carbide (SiC) fiber with the highest temperature capability of any available.

Field of Use

The PV Field means the field of photovoltaics, solar power or any similar field of Technology that relates to the conversion of electromagnetic radiation (e.g., sunlight) directly into electricity, and, any field of Technology, including so-called String Ribbon Technology, that relates to a technique in which a sheet of material, including semiconductor material (e.g., silicon, germanium, etc.), metals (e.g., palladium, platinum, etc.), salts and/or certain man-made gemstones are grown directly from the molten stage, whether the sheet is grown in a vertical or horizontal direction.

License Grant

The Licensee has an exclusive worldwide license and rights to sublicense any and all intellectual property conceived or developed under its sponsorship at the University.

License Property

Currently, research and development of the licensee's flexible, thin-film organic photovoltaic (OPV) and inorganic Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technologies is being conducted at University's (Licensor's) research facility under the seven year 2013 Research Agreement dated December 20, 2013.

OPV are Organic semiconductors made from carbon-rich compounds with a structure tailored to optimize a particular function, such as responsiveness to a particular range of visible light. The use of organic compounds as semiconductors for commercial applications is very new.

Field of Use

Licensee is using it in organic semiconductor based photovoltaic cell technology.

OPV are Organic semiconductors made from carbon-rich compounds with a structure tailored to optimize a particular function, such as responsiveness to a particular range of visible light. The use of organic compounds as semiconductors for commercial applications is very new.  The Licensee is using it in organic semiconductor based photovoltaic cell technology. A particular advantage of OPV technologies is the low cost of the materials used for the solar energy generating layers. Additionally, all of the fabrication temperatures are low and environmentally “green”, greatly reducing the ancillary costs required in conventional solar cell production.  Furthermore, the growth of the thin film layers can be accomplished directly onto the plastic or metal foils and therefore is no need for energy-intensive and expensive epitaxial growth required by inorganic semiconductors such as silicon or GaAs. Rather, there is the opportunity to “print” organic solar cells onto continuous rolls of plastic in an ultra-high-speed manufacturing process. The potential for printed electronics – making solar cells “by the kilometer” rather than on one substrate at a time – makes OPV a potentially revolutionary step in the widespread acceptance and deployment of solar energy. Since the organic films are see-through, lightweight and extremely thin (in this case the entire structure is only 0.1% the thickness of a human hair), they can be made semitransparent and adjusted to any desirable color. As a result, there are significant opportunities to achieve heretofore unrealizable applications such as car paint that allows vehicle coating to act as a source of power for an electric car; windows that can be coated with a clear semi-transparent film that captures photons from the sun to provide power for inside of the building, and fabric that can be made coated in order to make clothes, tents, flags, or lightweight roll-out power mats.

Since the organic films are see-through, lightweight and extremely thin (in this case the entire structure is only 0.1% the thickness of a human hair), they can be made semitransparent and adjusted to any desirable color. As a result, there are significant opportunities to achieve heretofore unrealizable applications such as car paint that allows vehicle coating to act as a source of power for an electric car; windows that can be coated with a clear semi-transparent film that captures photons from the sun to provide power for inside of the building, and fabric that can be made coated in order to make clothes, tents, flags, or lightweight roll-out power mats.

License Grant

The Seller sold to the Company all of their right, title, and interest in a patent application, Israel Patent Application Number 198369, for the design of and manufacturing method for a solar photovoltaic element. The technology underlying the Patent Application has the potential to be adopted as a standard in homes and businesses, and, if so adopted, it may have a significant impact on promoting solar power and efficiency.  Seller agrees to sell, assign, transfer and convey to Purchaser all of Sellers right, title and interest in and to the worldwide Patent Rights.

License Property

The Patent Application is for the design and manufacture of a solar photovoltaic element that absorbs the solar spectrum and enables an increase in solar energy conversion. The device will be manufactured on the basis of at least one vacuum chamber and includes many layers, including a reflective layer, an anti-reflective layer, and a protective laminating layer. As soon as we raise the necessary funds, we will use the raised proceeds to develop a working prototype of the invention. Once a working prototype has been developed, we will work to develop and manufacture the device or License the manufacturing and related marketing and selling rights to a third party.

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to the solar energy conversion.

License Grant

Licensor, an individual, grants to Licensee, its successors, assigns, and legal representatives, the irrevocable, world-wide right and license in and to the Technology and the Licensed Patents, including the right to make, have made, use, lease, sub-license and sell Wafers, Cells, Modules, Integrated Products and Other Products and to enforce any of the patent rights of the Licensed Patents.

License Property

Licensee owns or has rights in and to certain patents, patent rights, knowhow and technology relating to ribbon technology.

Wafer shall mean any ribbon substrate which would infringe a claim of a Licensed Patent.

Cell shall mean a single Wafer which is processed to provide electrical output.

Module shall mean a plurality of Cells which are connected with a common electrical output.

Integrated Product shall mean any product which is sold as a unit by Licensee and which incorporates a Wafer, Cell or Module as part of the unit.

Field of Use

Licensee is engaged in the development and marketing of products which incorporate ribbon technology, such as crystalline silicon photovoltaics and photovoltaic solar cells.

License Grant

Licensor grants to Licensee an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, and to authorize Third Parties to use, all Rayton Base Technology to the extent necessary for the use or practice of the Developed Technology (the “Licensed Rayton Base Technology”).

License Property

Licensor is in the business of manufacturing and marketing solar panels,

Rayton Base Technology

1.
Rayton Solar Inc. Patents

A. United States Patent Application 13/954,868 “Processes and Apparatuses for Manufacturing Wafers” filed 7/30/2013 Attorney Docket number YAKUB-54214
B. United States Patent Application 61/941,325 “Improved Wafer Manufacturing System and Related Process” filed 2/18/2014 Attorney Docket number RAYTON- 54454

Field of Use

Licensee is in the business of, among other things, developing and producing accelerator systems that utilize microwave ion sources

Using the particle accelerator co-developed, the Licensee is able to achieve close to zero waste and create cost-efficient Photo Voltaic modules.

License Grant

University grants to Licensee an exclusive license under the Rice Intellectual Property to make, have made, use, import, offer for sale, sell, lease, or otherwise transfer University's Licensed Products in the Field of Use in the Territory, with the right to sub-license, during the Term of this Agreement.

The Licensee has obtained the exclusive rights to License and subLicense to develop, manufacture, market and exploit the Licensor's inventions, patent applications and any issued patents in the case of the Licensee, for the manufacture and sale of photovoltaic cells and photovoltaic applications and in the case of Licensee for the manufacture and sale of quantum dots for electronic and medical applications (excluding photovoltaic applications).

License Property

The University is the owner of certain inventions and patent applications, know-how and rights pertaining to the synthesis of uniform nanoparticle shapes with high selectivity.

Nanoparticle are materials with features in the nanoscale, which features can be beneficial in a number of applications. Quantum dots are atomic crystals, tiny nanoparticles which can operate as up converters or down converters, emitting either photons or electrons when excited. The color of light emitted varies depending on the size of the quantum dot so that photonic emissions can be tuned by the creation of quantum dots of different sizes. Their unique properties as highly efficient, next generation semiconductors have led to the use of quantum dots in a range of electronic and other applications, including in the biomedical, display and lighting industries. Quantum dots also have applications in solar cells, where their characteristics enable conversion of light energy into electricity, with the potential for significantly higher efficiencies and lower costs than existing technologies, thereby creating the opportunity for a step change in the solar energy industry through the use of quantum dots in printed photovoltaic cells.

With respect to the Licensor's patent applications, the Licensor made a provisional filing for an invention disclosure titled “synthesis of uniform nanoparticle shapes with high selectivity” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on April 13, 2007 and a subsequent utility filing on April 11, 2008 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

PCT enables the U.S. applicant to file one application, 'an international application,' in a standardized format in English in the U.S. Receiving Office (the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office), and have that application acknowledged as a regular national or regional filing in any State or region that is party to the PCT. Dr. Michael Wong is a director of the Licensee Parent and is the inventor of the Licensor’s patent application Licensed by the Licensee.

Patents:
Rice
Tech ID
Invention
Disclosure
Received
Invention Disclosure Title Patent Title Filing Date Serial Number Patent Type Country Inventors Pa
27014 8/31/06 Synthesis of Uniform Nanoparticle Shapes
with High Selectivity
Synthesis of Uniform Nanoparticle Shapes
with High Selectivity
4/13/07 60/911,721 Provisional U.S. Michael Wong,
Subashini Asokan
Synthesis of Uniform Nanoparticle Shapes with high Selectivity 4/11/08 PCT/US2008/060129 PCT PCT Michael Wong, Subashini Asokan On an “as is” basis as of the Effective Dae

Field of Use

“Field of Use” means the manufacture and sale of photovoltaic cells and the manufacture and sales of quantum dots for electronic and medical applications.

The Licensee is a start-up solar technology and quantum dot manufacturing firm with the opportunity to acquire a significant amount of both quantum dot and solar photovoltaic market share by commercializing a low cost quantum dot processing technology and a low cost quantum dot based third generation photovoltaic technology/solar cell, pursuant to an exclusive license agreement the University Licensor.

Our objective is to become the first bulk manufacture of high quality tetrapod quantum dots and the first solar cell manufacturer to be able to offer a solar electricity solution that competes on a non-subsidized basis with the price of retail electricity in key markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

License Grant

Licensor, an individual, hereby sells, conveys, assigns and transfers to the Company Licensor’s entire right, title and interest in and to the Technology, the Patent, the Patent Application, and all continuation, divisional, continuation-in-part and reissue applications, the Improvements and the technology, know-how and inventions embodied therein, all foreign and United States copyright, trade secret, trademark, service mark and other ownership rights related to the Technology, the Patent and the Patent Application, including, without limitation, all documentation, software, work product, research, memoranda, market studies, trademark searches and related opinions, patent, trademark or copyright applications or registrations, whether foreign or domestic, feasibility studies, discoveries, inventions (whether conceived or reduced to practice), know-how and good will, and all agreements and contracts in connection with the use, development, maintenance, advertisement or marketing of the Patent and the Patent Application and the right to sue for past infringement of the Patent and the Technology (collectively referred to hereafter as the Intellectual Property).

License Property

This is a revision of a License Agreement dated effective as of June 15, 1996, pursuant to which licensor  licensed to the Company certain rights relating to Patent No. 5,437,736 – Semiconductor fiber solar cells and modules.

The license revision assigns all of licensor's right, title and interest in and to the Patent and Improvements, consistent with the requirements of the original Inventions Agreement.  The licensor is an individual and the licensee a U.S. corporation.

Field of Use

The technology licensed is for Semiconductor fiber solar cells and modules.  The patent was granted in 1994 and relates to a semiconductor solar cell formed on an optical fiber or fibers, including layers of semiconductor materials surrounding an annular extent of each fiber.  The cell is embedded into a superstrate that is a collimating lens.  A method of manufacturing the cell and module is disclosed in the patent.

License Grant

Licensor grants to Licensee an exclusive, royalty-bearing, and non-transferable license to manufacture, have manufactured, use, import, offer to sell, and/or sell, or lease inventions and/or technology covered by the Licensed Technology during the Term, in all Fields of Use. US Patents: 8,622,056 Solar Energy Power Generation System and US 9,163,512 Bladeless Turbine.

License Property

The Licensor’s proprietary intellectual property and trademarks are in the field of solar power  technology for energy production.

US 8,622,056 Solar Energy Power Generation System
US 9,163,512 Bladeless Turbine

Field of Use

The Licensee is involved in technologies for exploiting shallow oil and natural gas reserves.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants and agrees to grant to Licensee, effective upon license Effective Date, a world-wide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid up and royalty-free license, without the right to sublicense, under the Licensor's Intellectual Property Rights, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import or otherwise commercialize or exploit Licensed Products, to use the Licensor's Technology in connection with the foregoing, and to otherwise operate Licensee and commercialize its products as contemplated in the Master Agreement. It is understood that the foregoing license to Licensee includes, without limitation, the right to change and make improvements and extensions to the Licensor's Technology. Furthermore, it is understood that Licensee shall have the right to commercially exploit such changes and improvements in accordance with such license.  This is to be used in the manufacture of Licensee's solar modules.  

Subject to exceptions in this Agreement, Licensee shall pay royalties to Licensor for the use of MNIP. The royalty shall be based on two main elements: the success of the relevant MNIP in achieving Cost Savings and the success of that MNIP in achieving Added Value.  MNIP means Material New IP.

Licensed Products means Wafers, Cells, and/or Modules, as the case may be, in which the Wafers are made using String Ribbon Technology.

License Property

The Licensor develops and manufactures multi-crystalline silicon wafers utilizing String Ribbon™ proprietary wafer technology. The technology involves a unique process to produce multi-crystalline silicon wafers by growing thin strips of silicon that are then cut into wafers. This process substantially reduces the amount of silicon and other processing costs required to produce a wafer when compared to conventional sawing processes. Silicon is the key raw material in manufacturing multi-crystalline silicon wafers. The wafers they produce are the primary components of photovoltaic “PV” cells which, in turn, are used to produce solar panels.

Licensed Products means Wafers, Cells, and/or Modules, as the case may be, in which the Wafers are made using String Ribbon Technology.  This is to be used in the manufacture of Licensee's solar modules.  The Licensor develops and manufactures multi-crystalline silicon wafers utilizing String Ribbonâ„¢ proprietary wafer technology. The technology involves a unique process to produce multi-crystalline silicon wafers by growing thin strips of silicon that are then cut into wafers. This process substantially reduces the amount of silicon and other processing costs required to produce a wafer when compared to conventional sawing processes. Silicon is the key raw material in manufacturing multi-crystalline silicon wafers. The wafers they produce are the primary components of photovoltaic (“PV”) cells which, in turn, are used to produce solar panels (also referred to as solar modules).

License Grant

Licensor grants to Licensee during the License Term the exclusive right and license in the Field of Use throughout the Territory under the Licensed Technology to manufacture, have manufactured, use, market, have marketed, sell, have sold, import, and have imported Licensed Product.

The rights in Licensed Technology granted by Licensor to Licensee include the right to grant sublicenses as Licensee deems prudent.

Licensor hereby assigns to Licensee any and all of Licensor’s right, title, and interest in and to the mark SUNCONE (the 'Trademark').

License Property

The Licensed Technology to applies it to distributed energy systems, electric power plants, saline water desalination systems, and other applications.

Licensor has invented certain technology which may be able to economically collect solar energy using a novel method of non-imaging optics. Among other uses, this technology may be able to be used to produce steam to drive a generator to produce electrical power or to produce desalinated water from seawater or brackish water.

'Licensed Commodity Product' shall mean generated electrical power or desalinated water or other pumped liquids that are generated or purified, as applicable, using any product or device which, or the manufacture, use or sale of which, is covered by a Valid Claim of the Patent Rights. For purposes of clarity, Licensed Commodity Products are a subset of Licensed Products.

'Licensed Product' means any product or device which, or the manufacture, use, or sale of which, is covered by a Valid Claim of the Patent Rights, including but not limited to Licensed Commodity Products. A solar collector that resembles the invention described in Article 1.2 but does not have a flexible film cone reflector does not fit this definition of 'Licensed Product.' If a cable tracking system defined in the patent application of Article 1.2 is used to point an array of solar collectors, then the cable tracking system part of the system may be a 'Licensed Product' if it is covered by a Valid Claim of the Patent Rights.

These applications are (a) Provisional U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/648,865, filed February 1, 2005, and (b) nonprovisional patent applications in the U.S. and abroad claiming priority to that provisional patent application, namely, (b.i) Nonprovisional U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/341,628, titled 'Concentrating Solar Power' and filed at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on January 27, 2006, (b.ii) International Patent Application No. PCT/US06/03071, titled 'Concentrating Solar Power' and filed at the USPTO’s Receiving Office pursuant to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on January 27, 2006, and (b.iii) Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Patent Application No. GCC/P/2006/5739, titled 'Concentrating Solar Power' and filed at the GCC Patent Office in the Middle East on January 31, 2006. These applications (a), (b.i), (b.ii), and (b.iii) are hereinafter referred to as the 'Patent Applications'.

Field of Use

'Field of Use' means the collecting of solar energy to generate electricity, desalinate water, and all other industrial applications.