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Michael Rizzolo — 206 Patents

IBM: 198 patents #164 of 70,183Top 1%
TETessera: 6 patents #80 of 271Top 30%
ASAdeia Semiconductor Solutions: 2 patents #9 of 57Top 20%
Albany, NY: #2 of 790 inventorsTop 1%
New York: #139 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #3,171 of 4,157,543Top 1%
206 Patents All Time
Michael Rizzolo has been granted 206 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in November 2025. Michael Rizzolo ranks #3,171 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.08%). Patent records list Michael Rizzolo in Albany, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 47 patents in 2020.peak 472011: 1 patents20112016: 3 patents2017: 18 patents20172018: 28 patents2019: 37 patents20192020: 47 patents2021: 39 patents20212022: 12 patents2023: 11 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 206 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12469777 BEOL interconnect subtractive etch super via Prasad Bhosale, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Lawrence A. Clevenger 2025-11-11
12464960 Metal hard mask integration for active device structures Takashi Ando, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Kevin W. Brew 2025-11-04
12464731 Layered bottom electrode dielectric for embedded MRAM Ashim Dutta, Jon Slaughter, Cho-Chuan Yang, Theodorus E. Standaert 2025-11-04
12457905 Patterning magnetic tunnel junctions and the like while reducing detrimental resputtering of underlying features Ki Woo Chung, Fee Li Lie 2025-10-28
12439608 MRAM integration with self-aligned direct back side contact Ruinan Xie, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Koichi Motoyama, Brent A. Anderson, Lawrence A. Clevenger 2025-10-07
12218003 Selective ILD deposition for fully aligned via with airgap Christopher J. Penny, Benjamin D. Briggs, Huai Huang, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Hosadurga Shobha 2025-02-04
11955424 Semiconductor device including a porous dielectric layer, and method of forming the semiconductor device Benjamin D. Briggs, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Bartlet H. DeProspo, Huai Huang, Christopher J. Penny 2024-04-09
11942126 Selectively biasing magnetoresistive random-access memory cells Saba Zare, Virat Vasav Mehta, Eric Raymond Evarts 2024-03-26 $9,065,000
11869561 Spin orbit-torque magnetic random-access memory (SOT-MRAM) with cross-point spin hall effect (SHE) write lines and remote sensing read magnetic tunnel-junction (MTJ) Julien Frougier, Dimitri Houssameddine, Ruilong Xie, Kangguo Cheng 2024-01-09 $9,963,000
11869783 Optimizating semiconductor binning by feed-forward process adjustment Benjamin D. Briggs, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Theodorus E. Standaert, James H. Stathis 2024-01-09 $9,963,000
11812668 Pillar-based memory hardmask smoothing and stress reduction Theodorus E. Standaert, Ashim Dutta, Dominik Metzler 2023-11-07 $6,695,000
11790072 Paint on micro chip touch screens Maryam Ashoori, Benjamin D. Briggs, Justin A. Canaperi, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Leigh Anne H. Clevenger +1 more 2023-10-17 $7,011,000
11735524 Electrical device having conductive lines with air gaps therebetween and interconnects without exclusion zones Benjamin D. Briggs, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Christopher J. Penny 2023-08-22 $5,113,000
11711982 Laser anneal for MRAM encapsulation enhancement Oscar van der Straten, Alexander Reznicek, Oleg Gluschenkov 2023-07-25 $11,323,000
11676854 Selective ILD deposition for fully aligned via with airgap Christopher J. Penny, Benjamin D. Briggs, Huai Huang, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Hosadurga Shobha 2023-06-13 $11,668,000
11665974 MRAM containing magnetic top contact Saba Zare, Virat Vasav Mehta, Eric Raymond Evarts 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11636353 Cognitive system for localized LIDAR pollution detection using autonomous vehicles Benjamin D. Briggs, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Leigh Anne H. Clevenger 2023-04-25 $8,760,000
11610941 Integrated non volatile memory electrode thin film resistor cap and etch stop Kevin W. Brew, Takashi Ando, Lawrence A. Clevenger 2023-03-21 $41,358,000
11574864 Semiconductor device including a porous dielectric layer, and method of forming the semiconductor device Benjamin D. Briggs, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Bartlet H. DeProspo, Huai Huang, Christopher J. Penny 2023-02-07 $5,433,000
11569442 Dielectric retention and method of forming memory pillar Saba Zare, Mona A. Ebrish, Theodorus E. Standaert 2023-01-31 $7,725,000
11552243 MRAM structure with ternary weight storage Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Ravi Nair 2023-01-10 $10,956,000
11502242 Embedded memory devices Ashim Dutta, Chih-Chao Yang, Theodorus E. Standaert 2022-11-15 $5,426,000
11488863 Self-aligned contact scheme for pillar-based memory elements Benjamin D. Briggs, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo 2022-11-01 $6,203,000
11476415 Patterning magnetic tunnel junctions and the like while reducing detrimental resputtering of underlying features Kisup Chung, Fee Li Lie 2022-10-18 $6,904,000
11444029 Back-end-of-line interconnect structures with varying aspect ratios Prasad Bhosale, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Chih-Chao Yang 2022-09-13 $6,415,000