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Jerry A. Kreifels — 21 Patents

Intel: 20 patents #2,048 of 30,777Top 7%
Citrus Heights, CA: #5 of 237 inventorsTop 3%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Jerry A. Kreifels has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in July 2011. Jerry A. Kreifels ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Jerry A. Kreifels in Citrus Heights, CA, US.

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Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
RE42551 Block locking apparatus for flash memory Vishram Prakash Dalvi, Rodney R. Rozman, Christopher John Haid, Joseph W. Tsang, Jeff Evertt +2 more 2011-07-12
7437499 Dividing a flash memory operation into phases Richard J. Durante 2008-10-14 $13,671,000
7200708 Apparatus and methods for storing data which self-compensate for erase performance degradation 2007-04-03 $17,128,000
6597605 Systems with non-volatile memory bit sequence program control Rodney R. Rozman 2003-07-22 $27,595,000
6418059 Method and apparatus for non-volatile memory bit sequence program controller Rodney R. Rozman 2002-07-09 $52,281,000
6148360 Nonvolatile writeable memory with program suspend command David A. Leak, Fasil G. Bekele, Thomas C. Price, Alan E. Baker, Charles W. Brown +4 more 2000-11-14 $197,588,000
6073243 Block locking and passcode scheme for flash memory Vishram Prakash Dalvi, Rodney R. Rozman, Christopher John Haid, Joseph W. Tsang, Jeff Evertt +2 more 2000-06-06 $186,775,000
6035401 Block locking apparatus for flash memory Vishram Prakash Dalvi, Rodney R. Rozman, Christopher John Haid, Joseph W. Tsang, Jeff Evertt +2 more 2000-03-07 $430,213,000
5954818 Method of programming, erasing, and reading block lock-bits and a master lock-bit in a flash memory device Vishram Prakash Dalvi, Rodney R. Rozman, Christopher John Haid, Joseph W. Tsang, Jeff Evertt +2 more 1999-09-21 $160,271,000
5937424 Method and apparatus for suspending the writing of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory with program suspend command David A. Leak, Fasil G. Bekele, Thomas C. Price, Alan E. Baker, Charles W. Brown +4 more 1999-08-10 $109,908,000
5850509 Circuitry for propagating test mode signals associated with a memory array Mickey L. Fandrich, Virgil N. Kynett 1998-12-15 $253,200,000
5526311 Method and circuitry for enabling and permanently disabling test mode access in a flash memory device Richard J. Durante, Alexander C. Mitchell, III 1996-06-11 $78,500,000
5459355 Multiple layer programmable layout for version identification 1995-10-17 $88,002,000
5412793 Method for testing erase characteristics of a flash memory array Mickey L. Fandrich, William D. Smith 1995-05-02 $95,240,000
5410544 External tester control for flash memory Mamun Ur Rashid, Rodney R. Rozman, Richard J. Durante 1995-04-25 $26,296,000
5369647 Circuitry and method for testing a write state machine Mickey L. Fandrich 1994-11-29 $18,020,000
5339320 Architecture of circuitry for generating test mode signals Mickey L. Fandrich, Virgil N. Kynett 1994-08-16 $31,670,000
5222046 Processor controlled command port architecture for flash memory Alan E. Baker, George P. Hoekstra, Virgil N. Kynett, Steven Wells, Mark Winston 1993-06-22 $37,021,000
5053990 Program/erase selection for flash memory Alan E. Baker, George P. Hoekstra, Virgil N. Kynett, Steven Wells, Mark Winston 1991-10-01 $37,430,000
4860261 Leakage verification for flash EPROM George P. Hoekstra 1989-08-22 $12,698,000
4841482 Leakage verification for flash EPROM George P. Hoekstra 1989-06-20 $49,248,000