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Brian Cleereman — 16 Patents

Micron: 13 patents #1,255 of 6,374Top 20%
Intel: 3 patents #10,444 of 30,777Top 35%
Boise, ID: #580 of 3,546 inventorsTop 20%
Idaho: #864 of 8,810 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Brian Cleereman has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in October 2024. Brian Cleereman ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Brian Cleereman in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2020.peak 32011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 3 patents20202022: 1 patents20222024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12120878 Block-to-block isolation and deep contact using pillars in a memory array Deepak Thimmegowda, Srivardhan Gowda, Jui-Yen Lin, Liu Liu, Krishna K. Parat +2 more 2024-10-15 $19,078,000
11949022 Three dimensional memory Zhenyu Lu, Hongbin Zhu, Gordon A. Haller, Roger W. Lindsay, Andrew Bicksler +1 more 2024-04-02 $29,188,000
11289611 Three dimensional memory Zhenyu Lu, Hongbin Zhu, Gordon A. Haller, Roger W. Lindsay, Andrew Bicksler +1 more 2022-03-29 $22,466,000
10879259 Methods and apparatuses having memory cells including a monolithic semiconductor channel Jie Sun, Zhenyu Lu, Roger W. Lindsay, John D. Hopkins, Hongbin Zhu +3 more 2020-12-29 $14,732,000
10665599 Integrated structures and methods of forming vertically-stacked memory cells Hongbin Zhu, Gordon A. Haller, Charles H. Dennison, Anish A. Khandekar, Brett D. Lowe +1 more 2020-05-26 $16,522,000
10651315 Three dimensional memory Zhenyu Lu, Hongbin Zhu, Gordon A. Haller, Roger W. Lindsay, Andrew Bicksler +1 more 2020-05-12 $18,939,000
10269819 Integrated structures and methods of forming vertically-stacked memory cells Hongbin Zhu, Gordon A. Haller, Charles H. Dennison, Anish A. Khandekar, Brett D. Lowe +1 more 2019-04-23 $24,438,000
10229928 Three dimensional NAND flash with self-aligned select gate Jie Sun, Minsoo Lee 2019-03-12 $21,255,000
10090317 Methods and apparatuses having memory cells including a monolithic semiconductor channel Jie Sun, Zhenyu Lu, Roger W. Lindsay, John D. Hopkins, Hongbin Zhu +3 more 2018-10-02 $16,577,000
9659949 Integrated structures Hongbin Zhu, Gordon A. Haller, Charles H. Dennison, Anish A. Khandekar, Brett D. Lowe +1 more 2017-05-23 $22,048,000
9431410 Methods and apparatuses having memory cells including a monolithic semiconductor channel Jie Sun, Zhenyu Lu, Roger W. Lindsay, John D. Hopkins, Hongbin Zhu +3 more 2016-08-30 $10,335,000
9343469 Three dimensional NAND flash with self-aligned select gate Jie Sun, Minsoo Lee 2016-05-17 $8,600,000
9219070 3-D memory arrays Deepak Thimmegowda, Khaled Hasnat 2015-12-22 $12,441,000
9059115 Methods of forming memory cells; and methods of forming vertical structures David A. Kewley, Stephen W. Russell, Rex Stone, Anthony C. Krauth 2015-06-16 $14,484,000
8609489 Methods of forming memory; and methods of forming vertical structures David A. Kewley, Stephen W. Russell, Rex Stone, Anthony C. Krauth 2013-12-17 $5,079,000
7972926 Methods of forming memory cells; and methods of forming vertical structures David A. Kewley, Stephen W. Russell, Rex Stone, Anthony C. Krauth 2011-07-05 $5,610,000