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Michael B. Rice — 8 Patents

IBM: 8 patents #13,181 of 70,183Top 20%
Colchester, VT: #83 of 432 inventorsTop 20%
Vermont: #860 of 4,968 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Michael B. Rice has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in May 2010. Michael B. Rice ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Michael B. Rice in Colchester, VT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2003.peak 22001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents20032005: 1 patents20052006: 2 patents20062010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7714366 CMOS transistor with a polysilicon gate electrode having varying grain size Arne Ballantine, Kevin K. Chan, Jeffrey D. Gilbert, Kevin M. Houlihan, Glen L. Miles +3 more 2010-05-11 $5,650,000
7094614 In-situ monitoring of chemical vapor deposition process by mass spectrometry Douglas S. Armbrust, John Baker, Arne Ballantine, Roger W. Cheek, Doreen D. DiMilia +1 more 2006-08-22 $7,514,000
7045372 Apparatus and method for forming a battery in an integrated circuit Arne Ballantine, Robert A. Groves, Jennifer Lund, James S. Nakos, Anthony K. Stamper 2006-05-16 $5,914,000
6893948 Method of reducing polysilicon depletion in a polysilicon gate electrode by depositing polysilicon of varying grain size Arne Ballantine, Kevin K. Chan, Jeffrey D. Gilbert, Kevin M. Houlihan, Glen L. Miles +3 more 2005-05-17 $7,073,000
6670263 Method of reducing polysilicon depletion in a polysilicon gate electrode by depositing polysilicon of varying grain size Arne Ballantine, Kevin K. Chan, Jeffrey D. Gilbert, Kevin M. Houlihan, Glen L. Miles +3 more 2003-12-30 $8,971,000
6650000 Apparatus and method for forming a battery in an integrated circuit Arne Ballantine, Robert A. Groves, Jennifer Lund, James S. Nakos, Anthony K. Stamper 2003-11-18 $6,722,000
6489663 Spiral inductor semiconducting device with grounding strips and conducting vias Arne Ballantine, Robert A. Groves, Anthony K. Stamper 2002-12-03 $15,579,000
6255200 Polysilicon structure and process for improving CMOS device performance Arne Ballantine, Kevin K. Chan, Gary L. Langdeau 2001-07-03 $26,086,000