Inventor · Dallas, TX, US

Michael A. Kinch

18Patents
7h-index
14Co-inventors
63Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 10, 1978 → Jul 16, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4231149A Narrow band-gap semiconductor CCD imaging device and method of fabrication Electricity 61 Expired
US5144138A Infrared detector and method Electricity 29 Expired
US7608830B1 Separate absorption and detection diode for two-color operation Electricity 20 Active
US4360732A Infrared charge transfer device (CTD) system Electricity 18 Expired
US4377904A Method of fabricating a narrow band-gap semiconductor CCD imaging device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US4327291A Infrared charge injection device imaging system Electricity 9 Expired
US7459730B1 Separate absorption and detection diode for VLWIR Electricity 8 Active
US4507160A Impurity reduction technique for mercury cadmium telluride Electricity 7 Expired
US7504672B1 Separate absorption and detection diode Electricity 7 Expired
US4630090A Mercury cadmium telluride infrared focal plane devices having step insulator and process for making same Electricity 3 Expired
US4501625A Method of producing homogeneously doped HgCdTe which contains a fast diffusing dopant impurity Chemistry; Metallurgy 2 Expired
US5534719A HGCDTE thin film transistor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Expired
US5043293A Dual oxide channel stop for semiconductor devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Expired
US9673347B2 Minority carrier based HgCdTe infrared detectors and arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US7612340B2 Method of operating an avalanche photodiode for reducing gain normalized dark current Electricity 0 Expired
US8686471B2 Minority carrier based HgCdTe infrared detectors and arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US9112098B2 Minority carrier based HgCdTe infrared detectors and arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US5403760A Method of making a HgCdTe thin film transistor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.