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Robert Tyler Leonard — 30 Patents

CRCree: 22 patents #69 of 639Top 15%
WOWolfspeed: 7 patents #22 of 187Top 15%
Raleigh, NC: #227 of 6,378 inventorsTop 4%
North Carolina: #1,306 of 45,564 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Robert Tyler Leonard has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in November 2025. Robert Tyler Leonard ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Robert Tyler Leonard in Raleigh, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12473661 Large diameter silicon carbide wafers Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael James Paisley +8 more 2025-11-18
12402380 Nondestructive characterization for crystalline wafers Matthew David Conrad, Edward Robert Van Brunt 2025-08-26
12125701 Large dimension silicon carbide single crystalline materials with reduced crystallographic stress Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael James Paisley +12 more 2024-10-22 $20,103,000
12054850 Large diameter silicon carbide wafers Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael James Paisley +8 more 2024-08-06 $15,265,000
12040355 Nondestructive characterization for crystalline wafers Matthew David Conrad, Edward Robert Van Brunt 2024-07-16 $48,633,000
12024794 Reduced optical absorption for silicon carbide crystalline materials Elif Balkas, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Yuri Khlebnikov, Kathryn A. O'Hara, Simon Bubel +1 more 2024-07-02 $49,107,000
11519098 Dislocation distribution for silicon carbide crystalline materials Yuri Khlebnikov, Elif Balkas, Steven Griffiths, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael James Paisley 2022-12-06 $80,582,000
11361454 Alignment for wafer images Matthew David Conrad, Edward Robert Van Brunt 2022-06-14 $102,541,000
10867797 Methods and apparatuses related to shaping wafers fabricated by ion implantation Alexander V. Suvorov, Edward Robert Van Brunt 2020-12-15 $63,539,000
9790619 Method of producing high quality silicon carbide crystal in a seeded growth system Adrian Powell, Valeri F. Tsvetkov 2017-10-17 $6,909,000
9200381 Producing high quality bulk silicon carbide single crystal by managing thermal stresses at a seed interface Adrian Powell, Valeri F. Tsvetkov 2015-12-01 $4,871,000
9099377 Micropipe-free silicon carbide and related method of manufacture Cem Basceri, Yuri Khlebnikov, Igor Khlebnikov, Cengiz Balkas, Murat N. Silan +6 more 2015-08-04 $3,684,000
9048166 Method for controlled growth of silicon carbide and structures produced by same Hudson M. Hobgood, William A. Thore 2015-06-02 $7,718,000
8980445 One hundred millimeter SiC crystal grown on off-axis seed Mark Brady, Adrian Powell 2015-03-17 $12,690,000
8866159 Low micropipe 100 mm silicon carbide wafer Adrian Powell, Mark Brady 2014-10-21 $5,769,000
8785946 Low 1C screw dislocation 3 inch silicon carbide wafer Adrian Powell, Mark Brady, Stephan Mueller, Valeri F. Tsvetkov 2014-07-22 $19,827,000
8618552 Low micropipe 100 mm silicon carbide wafer Adrian Powell, Mark Brady 2013-12-31 $12,577,000
8410488 Micropipe-free silicon carbide and related method of manufacture Cem Basceri, Yuri Khlebnikov, Igor Khlebnikov, Cengiz Balkas, Murat N. Silan +6 more 2013-04-02 $5,206,000
8384090 Low 1C screw dislocation 3 inch silicon carbide wafer Adrian Powell, Mark Brady, Stephan Mueller, Valeri F. Tsvetkov 2013-02-26 $12,448,000
8377806 Method for controlled growth of silicon carbide and structures produced by same Hudson M. Hobgood, William A. Thore 2013-02-19 $9,957,000
8147991 One hundred millimeter single crystal silicon carbide wafer Jason Jenny, David Phillip Malta, Hudson M. Hobgood, Stephan Mueller, Mark Brady +2 more 2012-04-03 $41,363,000
7601441 One hundred millimeter high purity semi-insulating single crystal silicon carbide wafer Jason Jenny, David Phillip Malta, Hudson M. Hobgood, Stephan Mueller, Mark Brady +2 more 2009-10-13 $21,032,000
7563321 Process for producing high quality large size silicon carbide crystals Adrian Powell, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Mark Brady 2009-07-21 $17,115,000
7422634 Three inch silicon carbide wafer with low warp, bow, and TTV Adrian Powell, William H. Brixius, Davis Andrew McClure, Michael P. Laughner 2008-09-09 $25,624,000
7351286 One hundred millimeter single crystal silicon carbide wafer Adrian Powell, Stephan Mueller, Valeri F. Tsvetkov 2008-04-01 $32,883,000