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Brett Hull — 21 Patents

CRCree: 17 patents #99 of 639Top 20%
WOWolfspeed: 4 patents #39 of 187Top 25%
Raleigh, NC: #369 of 6,378 inventorsTop 6%
North Carolina: #2,157 of 45,564 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Brett Hull has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in December 2024. Brett Hull ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Brett Hull in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2020.peak 42010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12159909 Power semiconductor device with reduced strain Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt, Thomas E. Harrington, III, Shadi Sabri, Brice McPherson +1 more 2024-12-03 $32,549,000
11869948 Power semiconductor device with reduced strain Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt, Thomas E. Harrington, III, Shadi Sabri, Brice McPherson +1 more 2024-01-09 $35,680,000
11837629 Power semiconductor devices having gate trenches and buried edge terminations and related methods Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt 2023-12-05 $18,968,000
11222955 Semiconductor power devices having gate dielectric layers with improved breakdown characteristics and methods of forming such devices Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt, Shadi Sabri, Matt N. McCain 2022-01-11 $84,661,000
11184001 Power switching devices with high dV/dt capability and methods of making such devices Qingchun Zhang, Adam Barkley, Sei-Hyung Ryu 2021-11-23 $206,100,000
10886396 Transistor structures having a deep recessed P+ junction and methods for making same Qingchun Zhang 2021-01-05 $51,872,000
10861931 Power semiconductor devices having gate trenches and buried edge terminations and related methods Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt 2020-12-08 $62,842,000
10847647 Power semiconductor devices having top-side metallization structures that include buried grain stop layers Shadi Sabri, Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt, Scott Allen 2020-11-24 $38,827,000
10840367 Transistor structures having reduced electrical field at the gate oxide and methods for making same Qingchun Zhang 2020-11-17 $21,672,000
10601413 Power switching devices with DV/DT capability and methods of making such devices Qingchun Zhang, Adam Barkley, Sei-Hyung Ryu 2020-03-24 $14,001,000
10510905 Power Schottky diodes having closely-spaced deep blocking junctions in a heavily-doped drift region Qingchun Zhang, Edward Robert Van Brunt, Scott Allen 2019-12-17 $48,468,000
10115815 Transistor structures having a deep recessed P+ junction and methods for making same Qingchun Zhang 2018-10-30 $11,276,000
10068834 Floating bond pad for power semiconductor devices Sarah Haney, Daniel Namishia 2018-09-04 $19,064,000
9887287 Power semiconductor devices having gate trenches with implanted sidewalls and related methods Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt, Alexander V. Suvorov, Craig Capell 2018-02-06 $9,645,000
9640652 Semiconductor devices including epitaxial layers and related methods Qingchun Zhang 2017-05-02 $1,476,000
9530844 Transistor structures having reduced electrical field at the gate oxide and methods for making same Qingchun Zhang 2016-12-27 $7,582,000
9455356 High power silicon carbide (SiC) PiN diodes having low forward voltage drops Mrinal K. Das, Joseph Sumakeris 2016-09-27 $11,746,000
8536066 Methods of forming SiC MOSFETs with high inversion layer mobility Mrinal K. Das, Sumi Krishnaswami 2013-09-17 $15,629,000
8314462 Semiconductor devices including electrodes with integrated resistances Sei-Hyung Ryu, James Richmond 2012-11-20 $30,884,000
8288220 Methods of forming semiconductor devices including epitaxial layers and related structures Qingchun Zhang 2012-10-16 $8,386,000
7727904 Methods of forming SiC MOSFETs with high inversion layer mobility Mrinal K. Das, Sumi Krishnaswami 2010-06-01 $33,861,000