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Brian Kinnune — 79 Patents

CRCree: 43 patents #32 of 639Top 6%
RLRuud Lighting: 26 patents #5 of 42Top 15%
ILIdeal Industries Lighting: 8 patents #19 of 178Top 15%
CUCree Lighting Usa: 1 patents #13 of 45Top 30%
Racine, WI: #5 of 1,018 inventorsTop 1%
Wisconsin: #130 of 40,088 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #23,150 of 4,157,543Top 1%
79 Patents All Time
Brian Kinnune has been granted 79 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in July 2025. Brian Kinnune ranks #23,150 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.56%). Patent records list Brian Kinnune in Racine, WI, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 79 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12372219 LED luminaire with a cavity, finned interior, and a curved outer wall extending from a surface on which the light source is mounted Mario A. Castillo, Kurt S. Wilcox, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Sandeep Pawar, David P. Goelz 2025-07-29
RE49637 Systems and methods for high output, high color quality light David P. Goelz, Don Miletich, Alan J. Ruud, Kurt S. Wilcox, Yuequan Hu +3 more 2023-08-29
11549659 LED luminaire with a cavity and finned interior Mario O Castillo, Kurt S. Wilcox, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Sandeep Pawar, David P. Goelz 2023-01-10
10935211 LED luminaire with a smooth outer dome and a cavity with a ridged inner surface Mario A. Castillo, Kurt S. Wilcox, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Sandeep Pawar, David P. Goelz 2021-03-02
10895365 Lighting apparatus with reflector and outer lens Mario A. Castillo, Kurt S. Wilcox, William L. Dungan, Russell S. Schultz 2021-01-19
10865958 Multi-waveguide LED luminaire with outward emission Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gary David Trott, Mario A. Castillo, Peter E. Lopez +3 more 2020-12-15
10670232 Lighting apparatus with reflector and outer lens Mario A. Castillo, Kurt S. Wilcox, William L. Dungan, Russell S. Schultz 2020-06-02
10502899 Outdoor and/or enclosed structure LED luminaire Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gary David Trott, Mario A. Castillo, Peter E. Lopez +3 more 2019-12-10
10379278 Outdoor and/or enclosed structure LED luminaire outdoor and/or enclosed structure LED luminaire having outward illumination Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gary David Trott, Mario A. Castillo, Peter E. Lopez +3 more 2019-08-13
10323828 Lighting apparatus with reflector and outer lens Mario A. Castillo, Kurt S. Wilcox, William L. Dungan, Russell S. Schultz 2019-06-18 $24,458,000
10310160 Luminaire utilizing waveguide Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Zongjie Yuan, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Nathan Snell +2 more 2019-06-04 $15,056,000
10215378 Light fixture David P. Goelz 2019-02-26 $15,190,000
10045418 Systems and methods for high output, high color quality light David P. Goelz, James Michael Lay, Don Miletich, Alan J. Ruud, Kurt S. Wilcox +4 more 2018-08-07 $10,986,000
10042106 Outdoor and/or enclosed structure LED luminaire Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gary David Trott, Mario A. Castillo, Peter E. Lopez +3 more 2018-08-07 $10,986,000
9952372 Luminaire utilizing waveguide Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Zongjie Yuan, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Nathan Snell +2 more 2018-04-24 $8,732,000
9879849 LED light fixture having heat sink with fins at flow-through opening David P. Goelz, Kurt S. Wilcox, Craig Raleigh 2018-01-30 $29,730,000
9810421 LED light fixture Sandeep Pawar, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., David P. Goelz, Nathan Snell 2017-11-07 $8,789,000
9709725 Luminaire utilizing waveguide Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Zongjie Yuan, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Nathan Snell +2 more 2017-07-18 $3,818,000
D786471 Troffer-style light fixture Nathan Snell 2017-05-09
D783885 Luminaire David P. Goelz, Kurt S. Wilcox, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Sandeep Pawar 2017-04-11
9618162 LED lamp Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Kurt S. Wilcox, Curt Progl 2017-04-11 $5,611,000
D782725 Luminaire David P. Goelz, Kurt S. Wilcox, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Sandeep Pawar 2017-03-28
D781486 Luminaire S. Scott Pratt, William L. Dungan, Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gary David Trott +1 more 2017-03-14
9593837 Systems and methods for high output, high color quality light Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Yuequan Hu, David P. Goelz, James Michael Lay +4 more 2017-03-14 $3,505,000
9581750 Outdoor and/or enclosed structure LED luminaire Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Gary David Trott, Mario A. Castillo, Peter E. Lopez +3 more 2017-02-28 $4,541,000