US Patent Issued to WOLFSPEED on Nov. 18 for "Large diameter silicon carbide wafers" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,661, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to WOLFSPEED INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Large diameter silicon carbide wafers" was invented by Yuri Khlebnikov (Raleigh, N.C.), Varad R. Sakhalkar (Morrisville, N.C.), Caleb A. Kent (Durham, N.C.), Valeri F. Tsvetkov (Durham, N.C.), Michael J. Paisley (Raleigh, N.C.), Oleksandr Kramarenko (Durham, N.C.), Matthew David Conrad (Durham, N.C.), Eugene Deyneka (Raleigh, N.C.), Steven Griffiths (Morrisville, N.C.), Simon Bubel (Carrboro, N.C.), Adrian R. Powell (Cary, N.C.), Robert Tyler Leonard (Raleigh, N.C.), Elif Balkas (Cary, N.C.) and Jeffrey C. Seaman (Louisburg, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Si...