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Joseph Sumakeris — 24 Patents

CRCree: 23 patents #61 of 639Top 10%
UFUS Air Force: 1 patents #6,232 of 16,312Top 40%
Cary, NC: #241 of 3,681 inventorsTop 7%
North Carolina: #1,791 of 45,564 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Joseph Sumakeris has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in February 2018. Joseph Sumakeris ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Joseph Sumakeris in Cary, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2003.peak 32001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 3 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 2 patents2011: 2 patents20112013: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9903046 Reduction of carrot defects in silicon carbide epitaxy Michael O'Loughlin 2018-02-27 $4,657,000
9455356 High power silicon carbide (SiC) PiN diodes having low forward voltage drops Mrinal K. Das, Brett Hull 2016-09-27 $11,746,000
9155131 Methods for controllably induction heating an article Michael James Paisley 2015-10-06 $4,815,000
8536582 Stable power devices on low-angle off-cut silicon carbide crystals Qingchun Zhang, Anant Agarwal, Doyle Craig Capell, Albert Augustus Burk, Jr., Michael O'Loughlin 2013-09-17 $15,629,000
8430960 Deposition systems and susceptor assemblies for depositing a film on a substrate Michael James Paisley, Michael O'Loughlin 2013-04-30 $31,345,000
8052794 Directed reagents to improve material uniformity Michael James Paisley, Michael O'Loughlin 2011-11-08
7880171 Minimizing degradation of SiC bipolar semiconductor devices Ranbir Singh, Michael James Paisley, Stephan Mueller, Hudson M. Hobgood, Calvin H. Carter, Jr. +1 more 2011-02-01 $17,861,000
7427326 Minimizing degradation of SiC bipolar semiconductor devices Ranbir Singh, Michael James Paisley, Stephan Mueller, Hudson M. Hobgood, Calvin H. Carter, Jr. +1 more 2008-09-23 $33,427,000
7390367 Housing assembly for an induction heating device including liner or susceptor coating Michael James Paisley 2008-06-24 $9,573,000
7279115 Method to reduce stacking fault nucleation sites and reduce Vf drift in bipolar devices 2007-10-09 $6,189,000
7230274 Reduction of carrot defects in silicon carbide epitaxy Michael O'Loughlin 2007-06-12 $10,520,000
7226805 Sequential lithographic methods to reduce stacking fault nucleation sites Christer Hallin, Heinz Lendenmann 2007-06-05 $20,474,000
7118781 Methods for controlling formation of deposits in a deposition system and deposition methods including the same Michael James Paisley, Michael O'Loughlin 2006-10-10 $3,968,000
7109521 Silicon carbide semiconductor structures including multiple epitaxial layers having sidewalls Christer Hallin, Heinz Lendenmann 2006-09-19 $13,267,000
7018554 Method to reduce stacking fault nucleation sites and reduce forward voltage drift in bipolar devices 2006-03-28 $23,809,000
6974720 Methods of forming power semiconductor devices using boule-grown silicon carbide drift layers and power semiconductor devices formed thereby Hudson M. Hobgood, Michael James Paisley, Jason Jenny, Calvin H. Carter, Jr., Valeri F. Tsvetkov 2005-12-13 $23,613,000
6896738 Induction heating devices and methods for controllably heating an article Michael James Paisley 2005-05-24 $28,801,000
6849874 Minimizing degradation of SiC bipolar semiconductor devices Ranbir Singh, Michael James Paisley, Stephan Mueller, Hudson M. Hobgood, Calvin H. Carter, Jr. +1 more 2005-02-01 $10,845,000
6797069 Gas driven planetary rotation apparatus and methods for forming silicon carbide layers Michael James Paisley 2004-09-28 $12,568,000
6653659 Silicon carbide inversion channel mosfets Sei-Hyung Ryu, Anant Agarwal, Ranbir Singh 2003-11-25 $19,693,000
6569250 Gas-driven rotation apparatus and method for forming silicon carbide layers Michael James Paisley, Olle Kordina 2003-05-27 $26,979,000
6530990 Susceptor designs for silicon carbide thin films Hua-Shuang Kong, Calvin H. Carter, Jr. 2003-03-11 $20,945,000
6429041 Methods of fabricating silicon carbide inversion channel devices without the need to utilize P-type implantation Sei-Hyung Ryu, Anant Agarwal, Ranbir Singh 2002-08-06 $17,855,000
6217662 Susceptor designs for silicon carbide thin films Hua-Shuang Kong, Calvin H. Carter, Jr. 2001-04-17 $10,931,000