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Robert L. Bruce — 85 Patents

IBM: 62 patents #1,262 of 70,183Top 2%
ZEZeon: 6 patents #109 of 734Top 15%
WTWaveform Technologies: 4 patents #1 of 17Top 6%
ISIsense: 4 patents #4 of 21Top 20%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
SGSiemens Energy Global: 2 patents #175 of 1,160Top 20%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
Verizon: 1 patents #5,952 of 6,238Top 100%
MCMacronix International Co.: 1 patents #718 of 1,241Top 60%
ULUlvac: 1 patents #339 of 680Top 50%
Cisco: 1 patents #7,948 of 13,007Top 65%
GUGlobalfoundries U.S.: 1 patents #363 of 211Top 175%
ETElpis Technologies: 1 patents #31 of 121Top 30%
White Plains, NY: #20 of 917 inventorsTop 3%
New York: #773 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,018 of 4,157,543Top 1%
85 Patents All Time
Robert L. Bruce has been granted 85 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in December 2025. Robert L. Bruce ranks #20,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.48%). Patent records list Robert L. Bruce in White Plains, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2019.peak 131984: 1 patents19842004: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 8 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 7 patents2018: 6 patents20182019: 13 patents2020: 13 patents20202021: 7 patents2022: 6 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 5 patents20242025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 85 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12502666 Microfluidic chips with one or more vias filled with sacrificial plugs Joshua Smith, Jyotica V. Patel, Benjamin H. Wunsch 2025-12-23
12495722 Suppression of void-formation of PCM materials Cheng-Wen Cheng, Matthew J. BrightSky, Gloria Wing Yun Fraczak 2025-12-09
12446831 System, method and apparatus for sensor insertion David B. Kreitlow, Isaac Federiuk, Ryan James Polcin, Dennis Slomski, Eric Ward +1 more 2025-10-21
12342736 Phase-change memory cell with mixed-material switchable region Matthew J. BrightSky, Cheng-Wei Cheng, Guy M. Cohen, Asit Ray, Wanki Kim 2025-06-24
12330210 Method for producing flexible tooling for casting a ceramic core Travis John Vitello, Lara Richerson, Douglas Bibb, Scott Gangle, Ian T. Doran +3 more 2025-06-17
12329044 Applying inert ion beam etching for improving a profile and repairing sidewall damage for phase change memory devices Luxherta Buzi, Thitima Suwannasiri, Lynne M. Gignac, Sebastian U. Engelmann 2025-06-10
12290385 Method and apparatus for insertion of a sensor Mark Neinast, W. Kenneth Ward, Richard G. Sass, Jon A. Fortuna 2025-05-06
12004434 Fill-in confined cell PCM devices Praneet Adusumilli, Matthew J. BrightSky, Guy M. Cohen 2024-06-04 $14,788,000
11968913 Integration of selector on confined phase change memory Wanki Kim, Fabio Carta, Chung H. Lam 2024-04-23 $9,522,000
11910734 Phase change memory cell with ovonic threshold switch Nanbo Gong, Takashi Ando, Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari 2024-02-20 $7,691,000
11910731 Embedded heater in a phase change memory material Jin-Ping Han, Philip J. Oldiges, Ching-Tzu Chen 2024-02-20 $7,691,000
11889771 Mitigating moisture driven degradation of silicon doped chalcogenides Cheng-Wei Cheng, Huai-Yu Cheng, I-Ting Kuo, Martin M. Frank, Hiroyuki Miyazoe 2024-01-30 $13,656,000
11723293 Reactivation of a deposited metal liner Cheng-Wei Cheng, Matthew J. BrightSky 2023-08-08 $10,751,000
11665983 Phase change memory cell with ovonic threshold switch Nanbo Gong, Takashi Ando, Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari 2023-05-30 $4,328,000
11484227 Method for conditioning of a sensor Mihailo V. Rebec, Ralph Dutt-Ballerstadt 2022-11-01
11456417 Integrated phase change memory cell projection liner and etch stop layer Kevin W. Brew, Injo Ok, Iqbal Rashid Saraf, Nicole Saulnier, Matthew J. BrightSky 2022-09-27 $6,862,000
11440002 Microfluidic chips with one or more vias filled with sacrificial plugs Joshua T. Smith, Jyotica V. Patel, Benjamin H. Wunsch 2022-09-13 $6,415,000
11437571 Integration of selector on confined phase change memory Wanki Kim, Fabio Carta, Chung H. Lam 2022-09-06 $10,660,000
11355706 Single-sided liner PCM cell for 3D crossbar PCM memory Matthew J. BrightSky, Sangbum Kim 2022-06-07 $7,305,000
11318527 Manufacturing method for finishing of ceramic cores flash Timothy Troyer, Gabriela Garcia-Antunez, Andrew Belling, Lara Richerson, Douglas Bibb 2022-05-03
11192101 Method to create multilayer microfluidic chips using spin-on carbon as gap filling materials Chi-Chun Liu, Yann Mignot, Joshua T. Smith, Bassem M. Hamieh, Nelson Felix 2021-12-07 $3,115,000
11084032 Method to create multilayer microfluidic chips using spin-on carbon as gap fill and spin-on glass tone inversion Chi-Chun Liu, Yann Mignot, Joshua T. Smith, Bassem M. Hamieh, Nelson Felix 2021-08-10 $4,960,000
11018225 III-V extension by high temperature plasma doping Kevin K. Chan, Sebastian U. Engelmann, Renee T. Mo, Christopher Scerbo, Hongwen Yan +1 more 2021-05-25 $5,474,000
10991763 Vertical array of resistive switching devices having restricted filament regions and tunable top electrode volume Takashi Ando, Hiroyuki Miyazoe, John Rozen 2021-04-27 $8,613,000
10903270 Access device and phase change memory combination structure in backend of line (BEOL) Fabio Carta, Gloria W. Fraczak, Hiroyuki Miyazoe, Kumar R. Virwani 2021-01-26 $1,788,000