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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Lawrence A. Clevenger — 647 Patents

IBM: 611 patents #13 of 70,183Top 1%
SSStmicroelectronics Sa: 29 patents #131 of 1,676Top 8%
TETessera: 13 patents #34 of 271Top 15%
Globalfoundries: 13 patents #279 of 4,424Top 7%
Infineon Technologies Ag: 10 patents #917 of 7,486Top 15%
ASAdeia Semiconductor Solutions: 4 patents #2 of 57Top 4%
GPGlobalfoundries Singapore Pte.: 3 patents #212 of 828Top 30%
ETElpis Technologies: 3 patents #8 of 121Top 7%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
CMChartered Semiconductor Manufacturing: 1 patents #419 of 840Top 50%
FSFreeescale Semiconductor: 1 patents #2,021 of 3,767Top 55%
KYKyndryl: 1 patents #287 of 874Top 35%
Saratoga Springs, NY: #1 of 363 inventorsTop 1%
New York: #13 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #209 of 4,157,543Top 1%
647 Patents All Time
Lawrence A. Clevenger has been granted 647 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. Lawrence A. Clevenger ranks #209 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.01%). Patent records list Lawrence A. Clevenger in Saratoga Springs, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 80 patents in 2020.peak 801996: 1 patents19961997: 2 patents1998: 2 patents1999: 1 patents19992001: 3 patents2002: 14 patents2003: 15 patents20032004: 17 patents2005: 11 patents2006: 15 patents20062007: 9 patents2008: 9 patents2009: 17 patents20092010: 21 patents2011: 16 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 9 patents2014: 19 patents2015: 9 patents20152016: 19 patents2017: 47 patents2018: 50 patents20182019: 75 patents2020: 80 patents2021: 78 patents20212022: 25 patents2023: 27 patents2024: 15 patents20242025: 35 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 647 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12506080 Reduced capacitance between power via bar and gates Ruinan Xie, Ki-Hyouk Choi, Reinaldo Vega, Albert M. Chu, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo 2025-12-23
12500144 Backside self aligned skip via Ruinan Xie, Biswanath Senapati, David Wolpert, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Leon Sigal +3 more 2025-12-16
12494428 Airgap spacer for power via Ruinan Xie, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Ki-Hyouk Choi, Huei Ching Huang 2025-12-09
12489035 Semiconductor passive device integration for silicon-on-insulator substrate Ruinan Xie, Ki-Hyouk Choi, Tenko Yamashita, John P. Arnold 2025-12-02
12482746 Early backside first power delivery network Brent A. Anderson, Christopher J. Penny, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo 2025-11-25
12484248 Source/drain contact at tight cell boundary Ruinan Xie, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Brent A. Anderson, Reinaldo Vega, Albert M. Chu 2025-11-25
12469777 BEOL interconnect subtractive etch super via Prasad Bhosale, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Michael Rizzolo 2025-11-11
12464960 Metal hard mask integration for active device structures Michael Rizzolo, Takashi Ando, Kevin W. Brew 2025-11-04
12463128 Interconnect structures with vias having vertical and horizontal sections Ruinan Xie, Albert M. Chu, Brent A. Anderson, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo 2025-11-04
12463130 Wrap around metal via structure Reinaldo Vega, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Albert M. Chu, Ruinan Xie, Brent A. Anderson 2025-11-04
12457793 Vertical transport field effect transistor (VTFET) with backside wraparound contact Ruinan Xie, Brent A. Anderson, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Reinaldo Vega, Albert M. Chu 2025-10-28
12439608 MRAM integration with self-aligned direct back side contact Ruinan Xie, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Koichi Motoyama, Brent A. Anderson, Michael Rizzolo 2025-10-07
12424557 Dual structured buried rail Huai Huang, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Ruilong Xie, Hosadurga Shobha 2025-09-23
12424550 Buried metal signal rail for memory arrays Biswanath Senapati, Seiji Munetoh, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Geoffrey Burr, Kohji Hosokawa 2025-09-23
12424549 Skip-level TSV with hybrid dielectric scheme for backside power delivery Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Ruilong Xie, Huai Huang, Hosadurga Shobha 2025-09-23
12419079 Field effect transistor with backside source/drain Ruilong Xie, Brent A. Anderson, Kisik Choi, Su Chen Fan, Shogo Mochizuki +1 more 2025-09-16
12417979 Pass-through wiring in notched interconnect Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Albert M. Chu, Ruilong Xie, Reinaldo Vega, Brent A. Anderson 2025-09-16
12417963 Isolation rail between backside power rails Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Hosadurga Shobha, Ruilong Xie, Baozhen Li 2025-09-16
12412830 Semiconductor device with power via Ruilong Xie, Junli Wang, Kisik Choi, Julien Frougier, Reinaldo Vega +2 more 2025-09-09
12412836 Backside power plane Ruilong Xie, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Hosadurga Shobha, Huai Huang 2025-09-09
12412833 TopVia interconnect with enlarged via top Chen Zhang, Brent A. Anderson, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo 2025-09-09
12402546 Composite material phase change memory cell Timothy Mathew Philip, Kevin W. Brew, Caitlin Camille Stuckey, Rebecca Martin, Robert R. Robison 2025-08-26
12400960 Vertical-transport field-effect transistor with backside gate contact Brent A. Anderson, Albert M. Chu, Ruilong Xie, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Reinaldo Vega 2025-08-26
12400871 Metal lines with low via-to-via spacing Daniel James Dechene, Somnath Ghosh, Hsueh-Chung Chen, Carl Radens 2025-08-26
12387983 Forming self-aligned vias and air-gaps in semiconductor fabrication Carl Radens, John H. Zhang 2025-08-12