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Brian T. Collins — 49 Patents

CRCree: 34 patents #36 of 639Top 6%
CRCreeled: 5 patents #15 of 96Top 20%
TEThomson Consumer Electronics: 5 patents #69 of 436Top 20%
TLThomson Licensing: 3 patents #738 of 2,575Top 30%
Holly Springs, NC: #7 of 335 inventorsTop 3%
North Carolina: #591 of 45,564 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #55,592 of 4,157,543Top 2%
49 Patents All Time
Brian T. Collins has been granted 49 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in September 2024. Brian T. Collins ranks #55,592 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Brian T. Collins in Holly Springs, NC, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 49 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12094998 Group III nitride based LED structures including multiple quantum wells with barrier-well unit interface layers Thomas A. Kuhr, Robert David Schmidt, Daniel Carleton Driscoll 2024-09-17
11705542 Binder materials for light-emitting devices Walter Weare, Derek Miller, Colin Blakely 2023-07-18
11674081 Phosphor composition Christopher P. Hussell, David T. Emerson, Ronan P. Le Toquin 2023-06-13
11292966 Phosphor composition Christopher P. Hussell, David T. Emerson, Ronan P. Le Toquin 2022-04-05
11088295 Group III nitride based LED structures including multiple quantum wells with barrier-well unit interface layers Thomas A. Kuhr, Robert David Schmidt, Daniel Carleton Driscoll 2021-08-10
10767111 Phosphor composition Christopher P. Hussell, David T. Emerson, Ronan P. Le Toquin 2020-09-08 $38,382,000
10756231 Group III nitride based LED structures including multiple quantum wells with barrier-well unit interface layers Thomas A. Kuhr, Robert David Schmidt, Daniel Carleton Driscoll 2020-08-25 $79,438,000
10283681 Phosphor-converted light emitting device Matthew Donofrio, Kevin Haberern, Bennett Langsdorf, Anoop Mathew, Harry A. Seibel, II +2 more 2019-05-07 $25,169,000
10266767 Phosphor Composition Christopher P. Hussell, David T. Emerson, Ronan P. Le Toquin 2019-04-23 $9,011,000
10224454 Group III nitride based LED structures including multiple quantum wells with barrier-well unit interface layers Thomas A. Kuhr, Robert David Schmidt, Daniel Carleton Driscoll 2019-03-05 $5,433,000
10109773 Light-emitting devices having closely-spaced broad-spectrum and narrow-spectrum luminescent materials and related methods Iliya Todorov, David Clatterbuck, Jasper Cabalu, Michael John Bergmann, Florin A. Tudorica 2018-10-23 $9,907,000
10074781 Semiconductor light emitting devices including multiple red phosphors that exhibit good color rendering properties with increased brightness Robert Wilcox 2018-09-11 $17,821,000
9985168 Group III nitride based LED structures including multiple quantum wells with barrier-well unit interface layers Thomas A. Kuhr, Robert David Schmidt, Daniel Carleton Driscoll 2018-05-29 $9,744,000
9905735 High brightness, low-cri semiconductor light emitting devices including narrow-spectrum luminescent materials Florin A. Tudorica 2018-02-27 $4,657,000
9871173 Light emitting devices having closely-spaced broad-spectrum and narrow-spectrum luminescent materials and related methods Iliya Todorov, David Clatterbuck, Jasper Cabalu, Michael John Bergmann, Florin A. Tudorica 2018-01-16 $6,022,000
9589852 Electrostatic phosphor coating systems and methods for light emitting structures and packaged light emitting diodes including phosphor coating Harry A. Seibel, II 2017-03-07 $5,497,000
9537052 Coated phosphors and light emitting devices including the same Harry A. Seibel, II 2017-01-03 $2,515,000
9464225 Luminescent particles, methods of identifying same and light emitting devices including the same Ronan P. Le Toquin 2016-10-11 $3,821,000
9447319 Yellow phosphor having an increased activator concentration and a method of making a yellow phosphor Iliya Todorov 2016-09-20 $7,609,000
9428688 Phosphor composition Christopher P. Hussell, David T. Emerson, Ronan P. Le Toquin 2016-08-30 $3,795,000
9318669 Methods of determining and making red nitride compositions Harry A. Seibel, II 2016-04-19 $2,305,000
9219202 Semiconductor light emitting devices including red phosphors that exhibit good color rendering properties and related red phosphors Robert Wilcox 2015-12-22 $2,966,000
9055643 Solid state lighting apparatus and methods of forming 2015-06-09 $3,033,000
8906263 Red nitride phosphors Harry A. Seibel, II, David T. Emerson 2014-12-09 $8,413,000
8866169 LED package with increased feature sizes David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, John Edmond, Eric Tarsa, Peter Scott Andrews +3 more 2014-10-21 $5,769,000