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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Eric R. Miller — 107 Patents

IBM: 84 patents #782 of 70,183Top 2%
RTX (Raytheon): 13 patents #808 of 15,912Top 6%
TETessera: 4 patents #104 of 271Top 40%
ASAdeia Semiconductor Solutions: 2 patents #9 of 57Top 20%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
ATAtmel: 1 patents #459 of 762Top 65%
LSLsi: 1 patents #2,018 of 3,238Top 65%
Watervliet, NY: #1 of 109 inventorsTop 1%
New York: #485 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,671 of 4,157,543Top 1%
107 Patents All Time
Eric R. Miller has been granted 107 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Eric R. Miller ranks #12,671 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.30%). Patent records list Eric R. Miller in Watervliet, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 18 patents in 2019.peak 182003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 10 patents2018: 13 patents20182019: 18 patents2020: 12 patents20202021: 9 patents2022: 10 patents20222023: 13 patents2024: 10 patents20242025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 107 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12406930 Structure containing a via-to-buried power rail contact structure or a via-to-backside power rail contact structure Ruilong Xie, Stuart A. Sieg, Kevin S. Petrarca 2025-09-02
12402403 Air gap spacer for metal gates Marc A. Bergendahl, Kangguo Cheng, Fee Li Lie, John R. Sporre, Sean Teehan 2025-08-26
12349475 Integrated circuit having vertical routing to bond pads Christian Boemler, Justin Gordon Adams Wehner, Drew Fairbanks, Sean P. Kilcoyne 2025-07-01
12341099 Semiconductor backside transistor integration with backside power delivery network Ruilong Xie, Daniel C. Edelstein, Rajiv V. Joshi, Ravikumar Ramachandran 2025-06-24
12327798 Physical unclonable function Kangguo Cheng, Fee Li Lie, Gauri Karve, Marc A. Bergendahl, John R. Sporre 2025-06-10
12305310 Indium electroplating on physical vapor deposition tantalum Michael J. Rondon, Jon Sigurdson 2025-05-20
12261186 Mosaic focal plane array David J. Gulbransen, Sean P. Kilcoyne, Matthew D. Chambers, Eric J. Beuville, Andrew E. Gin +1 more 2025-03-25
12166110 Nanosheet channel-to-source and drain isolation Marc A. Bergendahl, Kangguo Cheng, Fee Li Lie, John R. Sporre, Sean Teehan 2024-12-10
12148721 Iterative formation of damascene interconnects Sean P. Kilcoyne, Michael V. Liguori, Michael J. Rondon 2024-11-19
12107132 Source/drain contact positioning under power rail Ruilong Xie, Indira Seshadri, Kangguo Cheng 2024-10-01 $16,240,000
12080559 Using a same mask for direct print and self-aligned double patterning of nanosheets Stuart A. Sieg, Daniel James Dechene 2024-09-03 $28,105,000
12021135 Bottom source/drain etch with fin-cut-last-VTFET Tao Li, Indira Seshadri, Nelson Felix 2024-06-25 $10,690,000
12002805 Local vertical interconnects for monolithic stack transistors Heng Wu, Ruilong Xie, Chen Zhang 2024-06-04 $14,788,000
11973125 Self-aligned uniform bottom spacers for VTFETS Ruilong Xie, Hemanth Jagannathan, Jay William Strane 2024-04-30 $14,003,000
11916013 Via interconnects including super vias Yann Mignot, Christopher J. Waskiewicz, Chanro Park 2024-02-27 $9,833,000
11869937 Semiconductor device and method of forming the semiconductor device Marc A. Bergendahl, Gauri Karve, Fee Li Lie, Robert R. Robison, John R. Sporre +1 more 2024-01-09 $9,963,000
11869936 Semiconductor device and method of forming the semiconductor device Marc A. Bergendahl, Gauri Karve, Fee Li Lie, Robert R. Robison, John R. Sporre +1 more 2024-01-09 $9,963,000
11837623 Integrated circuit having vertical routing to bond pads Christian Boemler, Justin Gordon Adams Wehner, Drew Fairbanks, Sean P. Kilcoyne 2023-12-05
11791398 Nano multilayer carbon-rich low-k spacer Donald F. Canaperi, Richard A. Conti, Thomas J. Haigh, Jr., Son V. Nguyen 2023-10-17 $7,011,000
11753736 Indium electroplating on physical vapor deposition tantalum Michael J. Rondon, Jon Sigurdson 2023-09-12
11710768 Hybrid diffusion break with EUV gate patterning Indira Seshadri, Andrew M. Greene, Julien Frougier, Veeraraghavan S. Basker 2023-07-25 $11,323,000
11710756 Integrating optical elements with electro-optical sensors via direct-bond hybridization Jamal I. Mustafa, Robert C. Anderson, John L. Vampola, Sean P. Kilcoyne, George Grama 2023-07-25
11695059 Bottom source/drain etch with fin-cut-last-VTFET Tao Li, Indira Seshadri, Nelson Felix 2023-07-04
11673766 Elevator analytics facilitating passenger destination prediction and resource optimization Gauri Karve, Tara Astigarraga, Kangguo Cheng, Fee Li Lie, Sean Teehan +1 more 2023-06-13 $5,486,000
11652161 Nanosheet channel-to-source and drain isolation Marc A. Bergendahl, Kangguo Cheng, Fee Li Lie, John R. Sporre, Sean Teehan 2023-05-16 $9,959,000