Innovation Award

Call for Nominations Now Open (Nominations due by Tuesday, April 22nd)

innovation-award

The SRC Innovation Award recognizes and celebrates patents and intellectual property (IP) arising from SRC research that have made a significant impact on the semiconductor industry.

Nominations are accepted from the SRC community. 

Patents eligible for nomination must be 5 - 15 years from the original issue date at the time the nomination is filed. All nominated patents must be actively maintained and have originated from an SRC-funded research award. Award winners will be the listed inventors on the selected patent, with the physical award given where possible to the project leader listed on the original SRC-funded research award.

The award is presented at TECHCON.

Awards

2024 Award

US 9687877B2: "Compute Memory" Professor Naresh Shanbhag

2023 Award

US11474145B2: “Methods of determining operating conditions of silicon carbide power MOSFET devices associated with aging, related circuits and computer program products” Professor Bilal Akin

2022 Award

US7672152B1: “Memory cell with built-in process variation tolerance” Professors Kaushik Roy and Jaydeep Kulkarni

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