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Edwin L. Piner — 35 Patents

NINitronex: 13 patents #1 of 18Top 6%
IRInternational Rectifier: 12 patents #45 of 432Top 15%
Infineon Technologies Ag: 4 patents #2,109 of 184Top 1150%
TMTexas State University—San Marcos: 2 patents #2 of 12Top 20%
MHMacom Technology Solutions Holdings: 1 patents #148 of 265Top 60%
CRCree: 1 patents #444 of 639Top 70%
TUTexas State University: 1 patents #6 of 55Top 15%
ACAdvanced Technology & Materials Co.: 1 patents #255 of 410Top 65%
Cary, NC: #141 of 3,681 inventorsTop 4%
North Carolina: #1,048 of 45,564 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Edwin L. Piner has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nitronex. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in December 2024. Edwin L. Piner ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Edwin L. Piner in Cary, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12176221 Incorporating semiconductors on a polycrystalline diamond substrate Raju Ahmed 2024-12-24
10903076 Material selective regrowth structure and method 2021-01-26
10504725 Material selective regrowth structure and method 2019-12-10
10177229 Semiconductor material having a compositionally-graded transition layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2019-01-08 $16,955,000
10096701 Gallium nitride materials and methods associated with the same John Claassen Roberts, Pradeep Rajagopal 2018-10-09
9461119 Semiconductor structure with compositionally-graded transition layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2016-10-04
9437687 III-nitride based semiconductor structure T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2016-09-06
9437686 Gallium nitride devices with discontinuously graded transition layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2016-09-06
9064775 Gallium nitride semiconductor structures with compositionally-graded transition layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2015-06-23
8937335 Gallium nitride devices with aluminum nitride intermediate layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2015-01-20
8928035 Gallium nitride devices with gallium nitride alloy intermediate layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2015-01-06 $11,303,000
8928034 Gallium nitride devices with aluminum nitride alloy intermediate layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2015-01-06 $11,303,000
8748298 Gallium nitride materials and methods associated with the same John Claassen Roberts, Pradeep Rajagopal 2014-06-10 $3,845,000
8592862 Gallium nitride semiconductor structures with compositionally-graded transition layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2013-11-26 $10,593,000
RE44538 Indium gallium nitride channel high electron mobility transistors, and method of making the same Joan M. Redwing 2013-10-15
8368117 III-nitride materials including low dislocation densities and methods associated with the same John Claassen Roberts, Pradeep Rajagopal 2013-02-05 $2,058,000
8343824 Gallium nitride material processing and related device structures Jerry W. Johnson, John Claassen Roberts 2013-01-01
8344417 Gallium nitride semiconductor structures with compositionally-graded transition layer T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2013-01-01
8105921 Gallium nitride materials and methods T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Thomas Gehrke, Kevin J. Linthicum 2012-01-31 $3,622,000
8026581 Gallium nitride material devices including diamond regions and methods associated with the same Allen W. Hanson 2011-09-27 $2,521,000
7994540 Gallium nitride material transistors and methods associated with the same Walter H. Nagy, Ricardo M. Borges, Jeffrey D. Brown, Apurva D. Chaudhari, James W. Cook +8 more 2011-08-09 $3,044,000
7791106 Gallium nitride material structures including substrates and methods associated with the same Pradeep Rajagopal, John Claassen Roberts, Kevin J. Linthicum 2010-09-07
7687827 III-nitride materials including low dislocation densities and methods associated with the same John Claassen Roberts, Pradeep Rajagopal 2010-03-30
7569871 Gallium nitride material transistors and methods associated with the same Walter H. Nagy, Jerry W. Johnson, Pradeep Rajagopal, John Claassen Roberts, Sameer Singhal +8 more 2009-08-04
7365374 Gallium nitride material structures including substrates and methods associated with the same Pradeep Rajagopal, John Claassen Roberts, Kevin J. Linthicum 2008-04-29