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James Ibbetson — 117 Patents

CRCree: 101 patents #11 of 639Top 2%
ILIdeal Industries Lighting: 11 patents #12 of 178Top 7%
CLCree Lighting: 2 patents #3 of 11Top 30%
UEUS Dept of Energy: 1 patents #1,355 of 5,099Top 30%
CRCreeled: 1 patents #54 of 96Top 60%
CUCree Lighting Usa: 1 patents #13 of 45Top 30%
Philips: 1 patents #3,761 of 7,731Top 50%
Goleta, CA: #8 of 1,303 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,670 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #10,533 of 4,157,543Top 1%
117 Patents All Time
James Ibbetson has been granted 117 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in February 2025. James Ibbetson ranks #10,533 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.25%). Patent records list James Ibbetson in Goleta, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 117 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12225643 Lighting fixture and methods Bernd Keller, Michael Leung, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Eric Tarsa, Claudio Girotto +1 more 2025-02-11
11729877 Lighting fixture and methods Bernd Keller, Michael Leung, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Eric Tarsa, Claudio Girotto 2023-08-15
11638339 Light fixtures and methods Michael Leung, Ben Jacobson, Eric Tarsa, Claudio Girotto, Bernd Keller 2023-04-25
11251164 Multi-layer conversion material for down conversion in solid state lighting Fan Zhang, Bernd Keller, Thodore Lowes, Antony Paul Van De Ven, Deborah Kircher +2 more 2022-02-15
11209138 Skylight fixture emulating natural exterior light Bernd Keller, Theodore Lowes, Michael Leung, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Eric Tarsa +1 more 2021-12-28
10900621 Circadian light fixtures, and other devices Michael Leung, Ben Jacobson, Eric Tarsa, Claudio Girotto, Bernd Keller 2021-01-26
10781984 Skylight Fixture Bernd Keller, Theodore Lowes, Michael Leung, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Eric Tarsa +1 more 2020-09-22
10546978 Molded chip fabrication method and apparatus Michael Leung, Eric Tarsa 2020-01-28 $22,205,000
10529900 Solid state lighting device providing spectral power distribution with enhanced perceived brightness Fan Zhang, Ryan Gresback, Bernd Keller, Antony Paul Van De Ven 2020-01-07
10502374 Light fixtures and methods Michael Leung, Ben Jacobson, Eric Tarsa, Claudio Girotto, Bernd Keller 2019-12-10
10505083 Coating method utilizing phosphor containment structure and devices fabricated using same Kristi Wong, Maryanne Becerra 2019-12-10 $46,267,000
10465869 Skylight fixture Bernd Keller, Theodore Lowes, Michael Leung, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Eric Tarsa +1 more 2019-11-05
10451229 Skylight fixture Bernd Keller, Theodore Lowes, Michael Leung, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Eric Tarsa +1 more 2019-10-22
10439107 Chip with integrated phosphor Sten Heikman, Zhimin Jamie Yao, Fan Zhang, Matthew Donofrio, Christopher P. Hussell +1 more 2019-10-08 $11,919,000
10436969 Optical waveguide and luminaire incorporating same Zongjie Yuan, Kurt S. Wilcox, Eric Tarsa, Fabian Jean-Daniel Rol, Bernd Keller +1 more 2019-10-08
10416377 Luminaire with controllable light emission Claudio Girotto, Eric Tarsa, Nathan Snell, Mark Youmans, Theodore Lowes +4 more 2019-09-17 $50,811,000
10408986 Optical waveguide and lamp including same Zongjie Yuan, Kurt S. Wilcox, Eric Tarsa, Fabian Jean-Daniel Rol, Bernd Keller 2019-09-10
10288261 Low profile lighting module Bernd Keller, Eric Tarsa, Zongjie Yuan 2019-05-14 $25,942,000
10199360 Wire bond free wafer level LED Bernd Keller, Ashay Chitnis, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Max Batres 2019-02-05 $21,245,000
10164158 Molded chip fabrication method and apparatus Michael Leung, Eric Tarsa 2018-12-25
9823408 Optical waveguide and luminaire incorporating same Zongjie Yuan, Kurt S. Wilcox, Eric Tarsa, Fabian Jean-Daniel Rol, Bernd Keller +1 more 2017-11-21 $6,998,000
9793247 Solid state lighting component Thomas Yuan, Bernd Keller, Eric Tarsa, Frederick Morgan, Kevin Dowling +1 more 2017-10-17 $6,909,000
9780266 Stabilized quantum dot structure and method of making a stabilized quantum dot structure Kenneth Lotito, Ryan Gresback, Paul T. Fini, Bernd Keller 2017-10-03 $4,146,000
9685585 Quantum dot narrow-band downconverters for high efficiency LEDs Nalini Gupta, Bernd Keller 2017-06-20 $3,865,000
9666772 High powered light emitter packages with compact optics Jayesh Bharathan, Bernd Keller 2017-05-30 $3,002,000