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Richard K. Klein — 28 Patents

AMD: 21 patents #516 of 9,280Top 6%
CSCrosspoint Solutions: 6 patents #6 of 18Top 35%
APAdvanced Microdevices Pvt: 1 patents #2 of 26Top 8%
Mountain View, CA: #672 of 11,022 inventorsTop 7%
California: #19,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Richard K. Klein has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in December 2008. Richard K. Klein ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Richard K. Klein in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1997.peak 41989: 1 patents19891990: 3 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 4 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 4 patents2001: 2 patents20012003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7465639 Method for fabricating an SOI device Mario M. Pelella, James Werking 2008-12-16 $5,569,000
7205825 Emulation of long delay chain by ring oscillator with floating body-tied body devices Mario M. Pelella 2007-04-17 $14,172,000
6828607 Discontinuous nitride structure for non-volatile transistors Mario M. Pelella, Amy C. Tu 2004-12-07 $8,137,000
6535015 Device and method for testing performance of silicon structures Srinath Krishnan, Dong-Hyuk Ju, William G. En, Siu Lun Lee 2003-03-18 $1,685,000
6297083 Method of forming four transistor SRAM cell having a resistor 2001-10-02 $2,425,000
6191034 Forming minimal size spaces in integrated circuit conductive lines Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee, John C. Holst +1 more 2001-02-20 $7,201,000
6146954 Minimizing transistor size in integrated circuits Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Craig S. Sander, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2000-11-14 $4,365,000
6051881 Forming local interconnects in integrated circuits Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Craig S. Sander, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2000-04-18 $8,077,000
6046088 Method for self-aligning polysilicon gates with field isolation and the resultant structure Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Craig S. Sander, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2000-04-04 $6,962,000
6046478 P-channel thin film transistor having a gate on the drain region of a field effect transistor 2000-04-04 $6,962,000
5930659 Forming minimal size spaces in integrated circuit conductive lines Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee, John C. Holst +1 more 1999-07-27 $2,155,000
5907175 Four transistor SRAM cell 1999-05-25 $7,746,000
5844836 Memory cell having increased capacitance via a local interconnect to gate capacitor and a method for making such a cell Nicholas J. Kepler, Asim A. Selcuk, Craig S. Sander, John C. Holst, Christopher A. Spence +2 more 1998-12-01 $5,030,000
5796651 Memory device using a reduced word line voltage during read operations and a method of accessing such a memory device Stephen C. Horne, Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +1 more 1998-08-18 $2,496,000
5770519 Copper reservoir for reducing electromigration effects associated with a conductive via in a semiconductor device Darrell M. Erb, Steven C. Avanzino, Robin Cheung, Scott Luning, Bryan Tracy +2 more 1998-06-23 $3,351,000
5670419 Method of fabricating antifuses in an integrated circuit device and resulting structure Pankaj Dixit, William P. Ingram, III, Monta R. Holzworth 1997-09-23
5646448 Copper pellet for reducing electromigration effects associated with a conductive via in a semiconductor device Darrell M. Erb, Steven C. Avanzino, Robin Cheung, Scott Luning, Bryan Tracy +2 more 1997-07-08 $8,107,000
5639691 Copper pellet for reducing electromigration effects associated with a conductive via in a semiconductor device Darrell M. Erb, Steven C. Avanzino, Robin Cheung, Scott Luning, Bryan Tracy +2 more 1997-06-17 $14,474,000
5627110 Method for eliminating window mask process in the fabrication of a semiconductor wafer when chemical-mechanical polish planarization is used Raymond T. Lee 1997-05-06 $12,071,000
5527745 Method of fabricating antifuses in an integrated circuit device and resulting structure Pankaj Dixit, William P. Ingram, III, Monta R. Holzworth 1996-06-18
5493147 Antifuse circuit structure for use in a field programmable gate array and method of manufacture thereof Monta R. Holzworth, Pankaj Dixit, William P. Ingram, III 1996-02-20
5384481 Antifuse circuit structure for use in a field programmable gate array and method of manufacture thereof Monta R. Holzworth, Pankaj Dixit, William P. Ingram, III 1995-01-24
5322812 Improved method of fabricating antifuses in an integrated circuit device and resulting structure Pankaj Dixit, William P. Ingram, III, Monta R. Holzworth 1994-06-21
5233217 Plug contact with antifuse Pankaj Dixit, Monta R. Holzworth, William P. Ingram, III 1993-08-03
4960732 Contact plug and interconnect employing a barrier lining and a backfilled conductor material Pankaj Dixit, Jack Sliwa, Craig S. Sander, Mohammad Farnaam 1990-10-02 $3,951,000