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Stephen M. Gates — 130 Patents

IBM: 122 patents #403 of 70,183Top 1%
Globalfoundries: 3 patents #1,029 of 4,424Top 25%
CMChartered Semiconductor Manufacturing: 1 patents #419 of 840Top 50%
Applied Materials: 1 patents #4,824 of 7,310Top 70%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
SOSonsub: 1 patents #7 of 17Top 45%
FSFreeescale Semiconductor: 1 patents #2,021 of 3,767Top 55%
New York, NY: #24 of 20,192 inventorsTop 1%
New York: #314 of 115,490 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,439 of 4,157,543Top 1%
130 Patents All Time
Stephen M. Gates has been granted 130 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in December 2025. Stephen M. Gates ranks #8,439 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.20%). Patent records list Stephen M. Gates in New York, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2004.peak 151989: 1 patents19891996: 1 patents1997: 3 patents1998: 3 patents19982000: 1 patents2001: 7 patents2002: 5 patents20022003: 9 patents2004: 15 patents2005: 8 patents20052006: 7 patents2007: 6 patents2008: 5 patents20082009: 7 patents2010: 4 patents2011: 6 patents20112012: 4 patents2013: 6 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 6 patents2017: 5 patents20172018: 3 patents2020: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 130 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12505365 Anti-fuse and fuse structures for improving the functionality of qubit circuits Vivekananda P. Adiga, Russell A. Budd, Charles Thomas Rettner 2025-12-23
12218048 Anti-fuse and fuse structures for improving the functionality of qubit circuits Vivekananda P. Adiga, Russell A. Budd, Charles Thomas Rettner 2025-02-04
12178142 Layered substrate structures with aligned optical access to electrical devices Russell A. Budd, Kevin S. Petrarca, Vivekananda P. Adiga, Douglas M. Gill 2024-12-24 $24,905,000
11657314 Microwave-to-optical quantum transducers Chi Xiong, Jason S. Orcutt, Ricardo A. Donaton, Swetha Kamlapurkar, Abram L. Falk 2023-05-23 $8,730,000
10651252 Vertically integrated active matrix backplane Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Ghavam G. Shahidi, Davood Shahrjerdi 2020-05-12 $2,725,000
9984940 Selective and conformal passivation layer for 3D high-mobility channel devices Jack O. Chu, Masanobu Hatanaka, Vijay Narayanan, Deborah A. Neumayer, Yohei Ogawa +1 more 2018-05-29 $2,015,000
9960117 Air gap semiconductor structure with selective cap bilayer Elbert E. Huang, Dimitri Kioussis, Christopher J. Penny, Deepika Priyadarshini 2018-05-01 $4,480,000
9905667 Lateral bipolar transistor Fabio Carta, Daniel C. Edelstein, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Tak H. Ning 2018-02-27 $3,821,000
9799552 Low resistance metal contacts to interconnects Gregory M. Fritz, Eric A. Joseph, Terry A. Spooner 2017-10-24 $3,030,000
9786550 Low resistance metal contacts to interconnects Gregory M. Fritz, Eric A. Joseph, Terry A. Spooner 2017-10-10 $2,342,000
9784917 Low-loss large-grain optical waveguide for interconnecting components integrated on a glass substrate Joyeeta Nag, Jason S. Orcutt, Jean-Olivier Plouchart, Spyridon Skordas 2017-10-10 $2,342,000
9711455 Method of forming an air gap semiconductor structure with selective cap bilayer Elbert E. Huang, Dimitri Kioussis, Christopher J. Penny, Deepika Priyadarshini 2017-07-18 $2,009,000
9653567 Lateral bipolar transistor Fabio Carta, Daniel C. Edelstein, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Tak H. Ning 2017-05-16 $2,370,000
9472710 Low-loss large-grain optical waveguide for interconnecting components integrated on a glass substrate Joyeeta Nag, Jason S. Orcutt, Jean-Olivier Plouchart, Spyridon Skordas 2016-10-18 $1,445,000
9425298 Lateral bipolar transistor Fabio Carta, Daniel C. Edelstein, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari, Tak H. Ning 2016-08-23 $3,302,000
9349687 Advanced manganese/manganese nitride cap/etch mask for air gap formation scheme in nanocopper low-K interconnect Elbert E. Huang, Joe Lee, Son V. Nguyen, Brown C. Peethala, Christopher J. Penny +1 more 2016-05-24 $3,942,000
9318415 Beol structures incorporating active devices and mechanical strength Daniel C. Edelstein, Satyanarayana V. Nitta 2016-04-19 $757,000
9305836 Air gap semiconductor structure with selective cap bilayer Elbert E. Huang, Dimitri Kioussis, Christopher J. Penny, Deepika Priyadarshini 2016-04-05 $4,230,000
9275936 BEOL structures incorporating active devices and mechanical strength Daniel C. Edelstein, Satyanarayana V. Nitta 2016-03-01 $579,000
9219037 Low k porous SiCOH dielectric and integration with post film formation treatment Alfred Grill, Son V. Nguyen, Satyanarayana V. Nitta, Thomas M. Shaw 2015-12-22 $977,000
9111761 Multi component dielectric layer Alfred Grill, Son V. Nguyen, Satyanarayana V. Nitta 2015-08-18 $3,868,000
9070686 Wiring switch designs based on a field effect device for reconfigurable interconnect paths Daniel C. Edelstein, Ramachandran Muralidhar, Thomas Theis 2015-06-30 $3,617,000
9059679 Tunable interconnect structures, and integrated circuit containing the same Daniel C. Edelstein, Alberto Valdes-Garcia, Wayne H. Woods, Jr. 2015-06-16 $2,098,000
9018089 Multiple step anneal method and semiconductor formed by multiple step anneal Eric G. Liniger, Griselda Bonilla, Pak Leung, Stephen A. Cohen, Thomas M. Shaw 2015-04-28 $3,749,000
8952488 Low cost anti-fuse structure Chih-Chao Yang 2015-02-10 $3,717,000