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Kevin P. O'Brien — 113 Patents

Intel: 110 patents #176 of 30,777Top 1%
Amazon: 1 patents #10,717 of 19,158Top 60%
Portland, OR: #99 of 9,213 inventorsTop 2%
Oregon: #172 of 28,073 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #11,295 of 4,157,543Top 1%
113 Patents All Time
Kevin P. O'Brien has been granted 113 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in September 2025. Kevin P. O'Brien ranks #11,295 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.27%). Patent records list Kevin P. O'Brien in Portland, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 19 patents in 2022.peak 191994: 1 patents19941998: 1 patents2004: 2 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 8 patents2007: 3 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 5 patents2010: 4 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 2 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 11 patents2020: 14 patents2021: 5 patents20212022: 19 patents2023: 5 patents2024: 6 patents20242025: 11 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 113 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12432976 Thin film transistors having strain-inducing structures integrated with 2D channel materials Chelsey Dorow, Carl Naylor, Kirby Maxey, Sudarat Lee, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +1 more 2025-09-30
12396217 Encapsulation for transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheet transistor and methods of fabrication Chelsey Dorow, Carl Naylor, Uygar E. Avci, Sudarat Lee, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +4 more 2025-08-19
12396254 Stacked 2D CMOS with inter metal layers Uygar E. Avci, Scott B. Clendenning, Chelsey Dorow, Sudarat Lee, Kirby Maxey +4 more 2025-08-19
12375060 Digitally controlled lithographically-defined multi-frequency acoustic resonators Ved Gund, Kimin Jun, Edris M. Mohammed, Arnab Sen Gupta, Matthew V. Metz +2 more 2025-07-29
12369382 Integrated circuit structures with graphene contacts Carl Naylor, Kirby Maxey, Chelsey Dorow, Sudarat Lee, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +3 more 2025-07-22
12349438 Contact gating for 2D field effect transistors Kirby Maxey, Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Carl Naylor, Chelsey Dorow, Shriram Shivaraman +2 more 2025-07-01
12349442 Thin film transistors having semiconductor structures integrated with 2D channel materials Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Uygar E. Avci, Chelsey Dorow, Tanay Gosavi, Chia-Ching Lin +5 more 2025-07-01
12324204 Transistors including two-dimensional materials Carl Naylor, Chelsey Dorow, Kirby Maxey, Tanay Gosavi, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +2 more 2025-06-03
12278289 TMD inverted nanowire integration Carl Naylor, Chelsey Dorow, Kirby Maxey, Tanay Gosavi, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +4 more 2025-04-15
12266712 Transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheet transistors and methods of fabrication Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Chelsey Dorow, Kirby Maxey, Carl Naylor, Tanay Gosavi +4 more 2025-04-01
12266720 Transistors with monocrystalline metal chalcogenide channel materials Carl Naylor, Chelsey Dorow, Sudarat Lee, Kirby Maxey, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +6 more 2025-04-01
12176388 Transition metal dichalcogenide nanowires and methods of fabrication Chelsey Dorow, Kirby Maxey, Carl Naylor, Shriram Shivaraman, Sudarat Lee +4 more 2024-12-24 $17,261,000
12125895 Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) layer stack for transistor applications and methods of fabrication Chelsey Dorow, Carl Naylor, Uygar E. Avci, Sudarat Lee, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +4 more 2024-10-22 $18,859,000
12107060 Microelectronic assemblies with inductors in direct bonding regions Adel A. Elsherbini, Zhiguo Qian, Gerald Pasdast, Mohammad Enamul Kabir, Han Wui Then +5 more 2024-10-01 $20,560,000
12062631 Microelectronic assemblies with inductors in direct bonding regions Adel A. Elsherbini, Krishna Bharath, Kimin Jun, Han Wui Then, Mohammad Enamul Kabir +5 more 2024-08-13 $26,861,000
11935956 TMD inverted nanowire integration Carl Naylor, Chelsey Dorow, Kirby Maxey, Tanay Gosavi, Ashish Verma Penumatcha +4 more 2024-03-19 $28,784,000
11908950 Charge-transfer spacers for stacked nanoribbon 2D transistors Kirby Maxey, Chelsey Dorow, Carl Naylor, Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Tanay Gosavi +2 more 2024-02-20 $26,968,000
11854894 Integrated circuit device structures and double-sided electrical testing Valluri Rao, Patrick Morrow, Rishabh Mehandru, Doug B. Ingerly, Kimin Jun +3 more 2023-12-26 $39,948,000
11683939 Spin orbit memory devices with dual electrodes, and methods of fabrication Benjamin Buford, Angeline Smith, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Kaan Oguz +5 more 2023-06-20 $18,411,000
11640995 Ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs) having band-engineered interface layer Prashant Majhi, Brian S. Doyle, Abhishek A. Sharma, Elijah V. Karpov, Kaan Oguz 2023-05-02 $21,235,000
11605592 Method to fabricate metal and ferromagnetic metal multilayer interconnect line for skin effect suppression Noriyuki Sato, Kevin Lin, Hui Jae Yoo 2023-03-14 $29,588,000
11594673 Two terminal spin orbit memory devices and methods of fabrication Noriyuki Sato, Angeline Smith, Tanay Gosavi, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Kaan Oguz +8 more 2023-02-28 $10,430,000
11508903 Spin orbit torque device with insertion layer between spin orbit torque electrode and free layer for improved performance Angeline Smith, Ian A. Young, Kaan Oguz, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Christopher J. Wiegand +4 more 2022-11-22 $12,862,000
11476412 Perpendicular exchange bias with antiferromagnet for spin orbit coupling based memory Tanay Gosavi, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Kaan Oguz, Noriyuki Sato, Benjamin Buford +4 more 2022-10-18 $11,317,000
11462678 Perpendicular spin transfer torque memory (pSTTM) devices with enhanced thermal stability and methods to form the same Kaan Oguz, Charles C. Kuo, Mark L. Doczy, Noriyuki Sato 2022-10-04 $13,460,000