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

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