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Donald W. Nelson — 32 Patents

Intel: 25 patents #1,588 of 30,777Top 6%
NRNational Metal Refining: 5 patents #2 of 11Top 20%
Beaverton, OR: #176 of 3,140 inventorsTop 6%
Oregon: #1,224 of 28,073 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Donald W. Nelson has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in September 2024. Donald W. Nelson ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Donald W. Nelson in Beaverton, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2019.peak 91980: 1 patents19801981: 1 patents1984: 1 patents19841985: 1 patents1986: 1 patents19861988: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122017: 1 patents2018: 5 patents20182019: 9 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 3 patents20222024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12100762 Wrap-around source/drain method of making contacts for backside metals Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun, Il-Seok Son 2024-09-24 $33,787,000
12100761 Wrap-around source/drain method of making contacts for backside metals Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun, Il-Seok Son 2024-09-24 $33,787,000
11296197 Power gate with metal on both sides 2022-04-05 $18,322,000
11282861 Dynamic logic built with stacked transistors sharing a common gate Rishabh Mehandru 2022-03-22 $16,833,000
11264493 Wrap-around source/drain method of making contacts for backside metals Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun, Il-Seok Son 2022-03-01 $16,941,000
11049861 Method, device and system to provide capacitance for a dynamic random access memory cell Aaron D. Lilak, Patrick Morrow, Rishabh Mehandru, Stephen M. Cea 2021-06-29 $34,663,000
10892215 Metal on both sides with power distributed through the silicon Mark Bohr, Patrick Morrow 2021-01-12 $55,416,000
10700039 Silicon die with integrated high voltage devices M. Clair Webb, Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun 2020-06-30 $33,333,000
10658291 Metal on both sides with clock gated-power and signal routing underneath Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun 2020-05-19 $31,576,000
10578970 Ebeam universal cutter Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2020-03-03 $18,388,000
10490542 Integrated circuit layout using library cells with alternating conductive lines Patrick Morrow, Steven M. Burns 2019-11-26 $25,149,000
10386722 Ebeam staggered beam aperture array Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2019-08-20 $17,708,000
10361090 Vertical channel transistors fabrication process by selective subtraction of a regular grid Kimin Jun, Patrick Morrow 2019-07-23 $32,139,000
10332893 Architecture to communicate signals for operating a static random access memory Eric A. Karl 2019-06-25 $17,766,000
10325840 Metal on both sides with power distributed through the silicon Mark Bohr, Patrick Morrow 2019-06-18 $21,210,000
10297592 Monolithic three-dimensional (3D) ICs with local inter-level interconnects Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun, M. Clair Webb 2019-05-21 $20,944,000
10290528 Ebeam align on the fly Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2019-05-14 $24,469,000
10216087 Ebeam universal cutter Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2019-02-26 $20,644,000
10186484 Metal on both sides with clock gated-power and signal routing underneath Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun 2019-01-22 $27,645,000
10068874 Method for direct integration of memory die to logic die without use of thru silicon vias (TSV) M Clair Webb, Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun 2018-09-04 $19,235,000
10067416 Ebeam three beam aperture array Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2018-09-04 $19,235,000
10014256 Unidirectional metal on layer with ebeam Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2018-07-03 $24,450,000
9952511 Ebeam non-universal cutter Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2018-04-24 $19,097,000
9897908 Ebeam three beam aperture array Yan Borodovsky, Mark C. Phillips 2018-02-20 $17,556,000
9685436 Monolithic three-dimensional (3D) ICs with local inter-level interconnects Patrick Morrow, Kimin Jun, M. Clair Webb 2017-06-20 $9,273,000