H03B 7/08
Being a tunnel diode
Official title: being a tunnel diode
H03B7/08 (Being a tunnel diode) appears on 92 US grants and 85 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03B- Granted patents
- 92
- Published applications
- 85
- Assignees
- 38
- Inventors
- 114
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 4 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 4 | 0 |
| 2012 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 |
| 2016 | 5 | 7 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 | 10 |
| 2022 | 9 | 11 |
| 2023 | 8 | 11 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3 |
| 2025 | 7 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Bipolar junction transistor (BJT)--resonant tunneling diode (RTD) oscillator circuit and method122US 5,883,549 AHughes Electronics Corporation · 1999
- Monolithic microwave transmitter/receiver81US 5,511,238 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1996
- W-Band waveguide variable controlled oscillator43US 5,126,696 ATRW Inc. · 1992
- Traffic light control system and method42US 4,908,615 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1990
- Oscillation device23US 9,184,697 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2015