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William J. Murphy — 58 Patents

IBM: 51 patents #1,683 of 70,183Top 3%
Globalfoundries: 6 patents #578 of 4,424Top 15%
GUGlobalfoundries U.S.: 1 patents #363 of 211Top 175%
North Ferrisburgh, VT: #1 of 7 inventorsTop 15%
Vermont: #109 of 4,968 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #41,319 of 4,157,543Top 1%
58 Patents All Time
William J. Murphy has been granted 58 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in November 2021. William J. Murphy ranks #41,319 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.99%). Patent records list William J. Murphy in North Ferrisburgh, VT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2014.peak 61999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 2 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 2 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 4 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 5 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 6 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents2018: 5 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 3 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 58 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11167980 Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structures and design structures Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2021-11-09 $5,376,000
10589991 Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structures and design structures Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2020-03-17 $1,423,000
10589992 Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structures and design structures Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2020-03-17 $1,423,000
10549987 Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structures and design structures Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2020-02-04 $2,135,000
10446421 Crystal oscillator and the use thereof in semiconductor fabrication Cyril Cabral, Jr., Lawrence A. Clevenger, John M. Cohn, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Anthony J. Telensky 2019-10-15 $19,042,000
9981842 Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) structures and design structures Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2018-05-29 $2,015,000
9969613 Method for forming micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) beam structure Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2018-05-15 $2,944,000
9971341 Crystal oscillator and the use thereof in semiconductor fabrication Cyril Cabral, Jr., Lawrence A. Clevenger, John M. Cohn, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Anthony J. Telensky 2018-05-15 $9,390,000
9938137 Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structures and design structures Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2018-04-10 $2,135,000
9932222 Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) structures and design structures Michael T. Brigham, Christopher V. Jahnes, Cameron E. Luce, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper +1 more 2018-04-03 $2,801,000
9685370 Titanium tungsten liner used with copper interconnects Jonathan D. Chapple-Sokol, Cathryn J. Christiansen, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Tom C. Lee, Anthony K. Stamper 2017-06-20 $14,558,000
9406472 Planar cavity MEMS and related structures, methods of manufacture and design structures Dinh Dang, Thai Doan, George A. Dunbar, III, Zhong-Xiang He, Russell T. Herrin +5 more 2016-08-02 $3,259,000
9275868 Uniform roughness on backside of a wafer Shawn A. Adderly, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Max L. Lifson, Matthew D. Moon, Timothy D. Sullivan +1 more 2016-03-01 $579,000
9196519 Achieving uniform capacitance between an electrostatic chuck and a semiconductor wafer Shawn A. Adderly, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Jonathan D. Chapple-Sokol 2015-11-24 $992,000
9171971 Encapsulated sensors John J. Ellis-Monaghan, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Mark D. Jaffe, Kirk D. Peterson, Steven M. Shank 2015-10-27
9041128 Planar cavity MEMS and related structures, methods of manufacture and design structures George A. Dunbar, III, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper 2015-05-26 $2,909,000
8969195 Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices and a semiconductor structure Felix P. Anderson, Steven P. Barkyoumb, Edward C. Cooney, III, Thomas L. McDevitt, David C. Strippe 2015-03-03 $3,627,000
8921144 Planar cavity MEMS and related structures, methods of manufacture and design structures George A. Dunbar, III, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper 2014-12-30 $7,309,000
8881379 Method of making heat sink for integrated circuit devices Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Ebenezer E. Eshun, Terence B. Hook, Robert M. Rassel, Edmund J. Sprogis +1 more 2014-11-11 $15,773,000
8865497 Planar cavity MEMS and related structures, methods of manufacture and design structures George A. Dunbar, III, Zhong-Xiang He, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper 2014-10-21 $3,429,000
8846481 Transistor and method of forming the transistor so as to have reduced base resistance Marc W. Cantell, Thai Doan, Jessica A. Levy, Qizhi Liu, Christa R. Willets 2014-09-30 $5,320,000
8796044 Ferroelectric random access memory with optimized hardmask James E. Beecher, James S. Nakos, Bruce W. Porth 2014-08-05 $3,332,000
8658435 Hydrogen barrier liner for ferro-electric random access memory (FRAM) chip Brian M. Czabaj, James V. Hart, III, James S. Nakos 2014-02-25 $6,334,000
8604618 Structure and method for reducing vertical crack propagation Edward C. Cooney, III, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Zhong-Xiang He, Xiao Hu Liu, Thomas L. McDevitt +1 more 2013-12-10 $5,756,000
8586466 Electrical fuse with a current shunt Tom C. Lee, Thomas L. McDevitt 2013-11-19 $3,686,000