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Michael James Manfra — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 13 patents #3,175 of 40,388Top 8%
ATAT&T: 3 patents #5,559 of 18,772Top 30%
MIT: 2 patents #2,550 of 9,367Top 30%
ASAgere Systems: 1 patents #984 of 1,849Top 55%
AGAgere Systems Guardian: 1 patents #274 of 810Top 35%
West Lafayette, IN: #92 of 1,852 inventorsTop 5%
Indiana: #1,400 of 33,936 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Michael James Manfra has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in October 2025. Michael James Manfra ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Michael James Manfra in West Lafayette, IN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12457911 Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices with a horizontally-confined channel and methods of forming the same Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Flavio Griggio, Raymond Leonard Kallaher, Noah Seth Clay 2025-10-28
12283483 Sag nanowire growth with a planarization process Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Raymond Leonard Kallaher 2025-04-22
12171147 Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid device and its fabrication Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Asbjørn Cennet Cliff Drachmann, Charles M. Marcus 2024-12-17 $575,394,000
12119224 SAG nanowire growth with ion implantation Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Raymond Leonard Kallaher 2024-10-15 $379,667,000
12108688 Forming semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices with a horizontally-confined channel Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Flavio Griggio, Raymond Leonard Kallaher, Noah Seth Clay 2024-10-01 $328,958,000
11929253 SAG nanowire growth with a planarization process Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Raymond Leonard Kallaher 2024-03-12 $658,169,000
11849639 Forming semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices with a horizontally-confined channel Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Flavio Griggio, Raymond Leonard Kallaher, Noah Seth Clay 2023-12-19 $382,128,000
11798988 Graded planar buffer for nanowires Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Raymond Leonard Kallaher 2023-10-24 $295,109,000
11793089 Durable hybrid heterostructures and methods for manufacturing the same Candice THOMAS 2023-10-17 $282,604,000
11488822 SAG nanowire growth with ion implantation Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Raymond Leonard Kallaher 2022-11-01 $193,551,000
11211543 Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid device and its fabrication Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Asbjørn Cennet Cliff Drachmann, Charles M. Marcus 2021-12-28 $185,798,000
11201273 Semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure Dmitry PIKULIN, Geoffrey Charles Gardner, Raymond Leonard Kallaher, Georg Wolfgang Winkler, Sergei V. Gronin +3 more 2021-12-14 $326,394,000
11127820 Quantum well field-effect transistor and method for manufacturing the same Candice THOMAS 2021-09-21 $157,007,000
7038300 Apparatus with improved layers of group III-nitride semiconductor Julia Wang-Ping Hsu 2006-05-02 $5,547,000
7001813 Layers of group III-nitride semiconductor made by processes with multi-step epitaxial growths Nils Weimann 2006-02-21 $6,442,000
6699760 Method for growing layers of group III-nitride semiconductor having electrically passivated threading defects Julia Hsu, Nils Weimann 2004-03-02 $24,172,000
6495409 MOS transistor having aluminum nitride gate structure and method of manufacturing same Loren N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth William West, Yiu-Huen Wong 2002-12-17
6349454 Method of making thin film resonator apparatus Loren N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth William West, Yiu-Huen Wong 2002-02-26 $10,523,000
5411914 III-V based integrated circuits having low temperature growth buffer or passivation layers Chang-Lee Chen, Leonard Mahoney, Frank W. Smith, Arthur R. Calawa 1995-05-02
4952527 Method of making buffer layers for III-V devices using solid phase epitaxy Arthur R. Calawa, Frank W. Smith, Chang-Lee Chen 1990-08-28
4323422 Method for preparing optically flat damage-free surfaces Arthur R. Calawa, Joseph Gormley 1982-04-06