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Timothy Thurgate — 60 Patents

AMD: 34 patents #271 of 9,280Top 3%
SLSpansion Llc.: 18 patents #27 of 769Top 4%
Micron: 5 patents #2,516 of 6,374Top 40%
Cypress Semiconductor: 2 patents #733 of 1,852Top 40%
Sunnyvale, CA: #253 of 14,302 inventorsTop 2%
California: #5,886 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #38,820 of 4,157,543Top 1%
60 Patents All Time
Timothy Thurgate has been granted 60 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in February 2022. Timothy Thurgate ranks #38,820 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.93%). Patent records list Timothy Thurgate in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 60 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11257675 Tilted implant for poly resistors Shenqing Fang, Kuo-Tung Chang 2022-02-22
10644016 Charge-trapping memory device Kuo-Tung Chang, Shenqing Fang 2020-05-05
9559216 Semiconductor memory device and method for biasing same Srinivasa Banna, Michael A. Van Buskirk 2017-01-31 $12,992,000
9524971 Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device Srinivasa Banna, Michael A. Van Buskirk 2016-12-20
9263133 Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device Srinivasa Banna, Michael A. Van Bushkirk 2016-02-16 $6,293,000
9019759 Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device Srinivasa Banna, Michael A. Van Buskirk 2015-04-28 $18,309,000
8547738 Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device Srinivasa Banna, Michael A. Van Buskirk 2013-10-01 $5,978,000
8531878 Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device Srinivasa Banna, Michael A. Van Buskirk 2013-09-10 $5,150,000
8415734 Memory device protection layer Rinji Sugino, Jean Y. Yang, Michael Brennan 2013-04-09 $2,664,000
8409952 Method of forming an electronic device including forming a charge storage element in a trench of a workpiece Suketu Arun Parikh, Olov Karlsson, Yun-Ju Sun, Shankar Sinha 2013-04-02 $2,639,000
8208296 Apparatus and method for extended nitride layer in a flash memory Shenqing Fang, Kuo-Tung Chang, Youseok Suh 2012-06-26 $3,209,000
8148770 Memory device with buried bit line structure Shankar Sinha 2012-04-03 $3,391,000
8076712 Semiconductor memory comprising dual charge storage nodes and methods for its fabrication Chungho Lee, Ashot Melik-Martirosian, Wei Zheng, Chi Chang, Hiroyuki Kinoshita +2 more 2011-12-13 $655,000
7952938 Selective application of word line bias to minimize fringe effects in electromagnetic fields during erase of nonvolatile memory Gulzar Kathawala, Wei Zheng, Zhizheng Liu, Sung-Yong Chung, Kuo-Tung Chang +2 more 2011-05-31 $2,196,000
7888218 Using thick spacer for bitline implant then remove Zhizheng Liu, Shankar Sinha, Ming Sang Kwan 2011-02-15 $2,637,000
7785965 Dual storage node memory devices and methods for fabricating the same Unsoon Kim, Kyunghoon Min, Ning Cheng, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Sugino Rinji +3 more 2010-08-31 $1,139,000
7767517 Semiconductor memory comprising dual charge storage nodes and methods for its fabrication Chungho Lee, Ashot Melik-Martirosian, Wei Zheng, Chi Chang, Hiroyuki Kinoshita +2 more 2010-08-03 $3,923,000
7746705 Selective application of word line bias to minimize fringe effects in electromagnetic fields during erase of nonvolatile memory Gulzar Ahmed Kathawala, Wei Zheng, Zhizheng Liu, Sung-Yong Chung, Kuo-Tung Chang +2 more 2010-06-29 $497,000
7696038 Methods for fabricating flash memory devices Ning Cheng, Kuo-Tung Chang, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Wei Zheng, Ashot Melik-Martirosian +2 more 2010-04-13
7671405 Deep bitline implant to avoid program disturb Yi He, Ming Sang Kwan, Zhizheng Liu, Xuguang Wang 2010-03-02
7626869 Multi-phase wordline erasing for flash memory Xuguang Wang, Yi He, Zhizheng Liu, Sung-Yong Chung, Darlene Hamilton +4 more 2009-12-01
7489560 Reduction of leakage current and program disturbs in flash memory devices Kuo-Tung Chang 2009-02-10 $91,000
7462907 Method of increasing erase speed in memory arrays Ashot Melik-Martirosian 2008-12-09 $299,000
7301193 Structure and method for low Vss resistance and reduced DIBL in a floating gate memory cell Shenqing Fang, Kuo-Tung Chang, Richard Fastow, Angela T. Hui, Kazuhiro Mizutani +4 more 2007-11-27 $6,734,000
7125763 Silicided buried bitline process for a non-volatile memory cell Daniel Sobek, Mark Randolph 2006-10-24 $7,024,000