Elif Balkas — 7 Patents at Wolfspeed

Elif Balkas has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Wolfspeed. The first was granted in 2021 and the most recent in November 2025. Elif Balkas ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Elif Balkas in Cary, NC, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx 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
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
12024794	Reduced optical absorption for silicon carbide crystalline materials	Robert Tyler Leonard, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Yuri Khlebnikov, Kathryn A. O'Hara, Simon Bubel +1 more	2024-07-02	$49,107,000
11901181	Carrier-assisted method for parting crystalline material along laser damage region	Matthew Donofrio, John Edmond, Hua-Shuang Kong	2024-02-13	$57,694,000
11519098	Dislocation distribution for silicon carbide crystalline materials	Yuri Khlebnikov, Robert Tyler Leonard, Steven Griffiths, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael James Paisley	2022-12-06	$80,582,000
11024501	Carrier-assisted method for parting crystalline material along laser damage region	Matthew Donofrio, John Edmond, Hua-Shuang Kong	2021-06-01	$66,892,000

Elif Balkas — 7 Patents

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