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Mike Walters — 8 Patents

CRCree: 6 patents #211 of 639Top 35%
IRInternational Rectifier: 2 patents #177 of 432Top 45%
Apex, NC: #291 of 1,394 inventorsTop 25%
North Carolina: #6,637 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Mike Walters has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in March 2019. Mike Walters ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Mike Walters in Apex, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2017.peak 32007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082016: 1 patents20162017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10234121 Flat trim ring lens for occupancy sensors Kurt S. Wilcox, Jin Hong Lim, Andrew Dan Bendtsen 2019-03-19 $11,980,000
10009971 Lighting apparatus using multiple LED strings with current mirror circuitry and methods of operating same Joseph P. Chobot 2018-06-26 $8,562,000
9706611 Solid state lighting apparatuses, circuits, methods, and computer program products providing targeted spectral power distribution output using pulse width modulation control Jason Taylor, Daniel J. Pope 2017-07-11 $3,291,000
9686477 Lighting fixture with image sensor Andrew Dummer 2017-06-20 $3,865,000
9648687 Lighting apparatus using series-connected current sources and methods of operating same Daniel J. Pope 2017-05-09 $3,419,000
9504105 On-time control for switched mode power supplies Ashish Ekbote 2016-11-22 $7,383,000
7436162 Buck converter having improved transient response to load step down 2008-10-14 $3,570,000
7208921 DC-DC regulator with switching frequency responsive to load 2007-04-24 $19,880,000