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Richard Peter Smith — 27 Patents

CRCree: 26 patents #55 of 639Top 9%
WOWolfspeed: 1 patents #111 of 187Top 60%
Carrboro, NC: #7 of 235 inventorsTop 3%
North Carolina: #1,521 of 45,564 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Richard Peter Smith has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in April 2022. Richard Peter Smith ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Richard Peter Smith in Carrboro, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2010.peak 52003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 4 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 5 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 4 patents2017: 1 patents20172022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11316028 Nitride-based transistors with a protective layer and a low-damage recess Scott Sheppard, Zoltan Ring 2022-04-26 $154,014,000
9666707 Nitride-based transistors with a cap layer and a recessed gate Scott Sheppard 2017-05-30 $3,002,000
9224596 Methods of fabricating thick semi-insulating or insulating epitaxial gallium nitride layers Adam William Saxler, Yifeng Wu, Primit Parikh, Umesh Mishra, Scott Sheppard 2015-12-29 $5,485,000
9166033 Methods of passivating surfaces of wide bandgap semiconductor devices Adam William Saxler, Scott Sheppard 2015-10-20 $11,584,000
9142636 Methods of fabricating nitride-based transistors with an ETCH stop layer Scott Sheppard, Andrew Mackenzie, Scott Allen 2015-09-22 $2,694,000
8946777 Nitride-based transistors having laterally grown active region and methods of fabricating same Adam William Saxler, Scott Sheppard 2015-02-03 $6,194,000
8803198 Group III nitride field effect transistors (FETS) capable of withstanding high temperature reverse bias test conditions Scott Sheppard, Adam William Saxler, Yifeng Wu 2014-08-12 $9,034,000
8575651 Devices having thick semi-insulating epitaxial gallium nitride layer Adam William Saxler, Yifeng Wu, Primit Parikh, Umesh Mishra, Scott Sheppard 2013-11-05 $13,375,000
8212289 Group III nitride field effect transistors (FETS) capable of withstanding high temperature reverse bias test conditions Scott Sheppard, Adam William Saxler, Yifeng Wu 2012-07-03 $4,921,000
8049252 Methods of fabricating transistors including dielectrically-supported gate electrodes and related devices Scott Sheppard 2011-11-01 $9,288,000
7906799 Nitride-based transistors with a protective layer and a low-damage recess Scott Sheppard, Zoltan Ring 2011-03-15 $26,314,000
7858460 Passivation of wide band-gap based semiconductor devices with hydrogen-free sputtered nitrides Zoltan Ring, Helmut Hagleitner, Jason Henning, Andrew Mackenzie, Scott Allen +3 more 2010-12-28 $17,928,000
7855401 Passivation of wide band-gap based semiconductor devices with hydrogen-free sputtered nitrides Scott Sheppard, Zoltan Ring 2010-12-21 $36,454,000
7709859 Cap layers including aluminum nitride for nitride-based transistors Adam William Saxler, Scott Sheppard 2010-05-04 $24,785,000
7709269 Methods of fabricating transistors including dielectrically-supported gate electrodes Scott Sheppard 2010-05-04 $24,785,000
7678628 Methods of fabricating nitride-based transistors with a cap layer and a recessed gate Scott Sheppard 2010-03-16 $34,966,000
7550784 Nitride-based transistors and methods of fabrication thereof using non-etched contact recesses Adam William Saxler, Scott Sheppard 2009-06-23 $10,489,000
7525122 Passivation of wide band-gap based semiconductor devices with hydrogen-free sputtered nitrides Zoltan Ring, Helmut Hagleitner, Jason Henning, Andrew Mackenzie, Scott Allen +3 more 2009-04-28 $29,279,000
7465967 Group III nitride field effect transistors (FETS) capable of withstanding high temperature reverse bias test conditions Scott Sheppard, Adam William Saxler, Yifeng Wu 2008-12-16 $18,405,000
7456443 Transistors having buried n-type and p-type regions beneath the source region Adam William Saxler, Scott Sheppard 2008-11-25 $9,418,000
7432142 Methods of fabricating nitride-based transistors having regrown ohmic contact regions Adam William Saxler 2008-10-07 $13,460,000
7332795 Dielectric passivation for semiconductor devices Scott Sheppard, John Williams Palmour 2008-02-19 $12,240,000
7238560 Methods of fabricating nitride-based transistors with a cap layer and a recessed gate Scott Sheppard 2007-07-03 $24,953,000
7045404 Nitride-based transistors with a protective layer and a low-damage recess and methods of fabrication thereof Scott Sheppard, Zoltan Ring 2006-05-16 $18,481,000
6982204 Nitride-based transistors and methods of fabrication thereof using non-etched contact recesses Adam William Saxler, Scott Sheppard 2006-01-03 $23,420,000