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Fred Fishburn — 76 Patents

Micron: 70 patents #233 of 6,374Top 4%
Applied Materials: 4 patents #2,532 of 7,310Top 35%
TITexas Instruments: 2 patents #5,266 of 12,488Top 45%
Capitola, CA: #2 of 457 inventorsTop 1%
California: #3,799 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #24,882 of 4,157,543Top 1%
76 Patents All Time
Fred Fishburn has been granted 76 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in November 2025. Fred Fishburn ranks #24,882 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.60%). Patent records list Fred Fishburn in Capitola, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2008.peak 121993: 1 patents19931999: 1 patents2002: 3 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents2005: 2 patents2006: 11 patents20062007: 11 patents2008: 12 patents2009: 6 patents20092010: 5 patents2011: 2 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 3 patents2020: 2 patents20202022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 76 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12482749 L-type wordline connection structure for three-dimensional memory Chang-Min Kang, Gill Yong Lee, Tomohiko Kitajima, Sung-kee Kang, Sony Varghese 2025-11-25
12477723 Three dimensional memory device and method of fabrication Chang-Min Kang, Tomohiko Kitajima, Sung-kee Kang, Sony Varghese, Gill Yong Lee 2025-11-18
11980021 CMOS over array of 3-D DRAM device Sony Varghese 2024-05-07 $105,661,000
RE49715 Memory arrays Martin C. Roberts, Sanh D. Tang 2023-10-24
11380691 CMOS over array of 3-D DRAM device Sony Varghese 2022-07-05 $35,888,000
10685785 Apparatuses, multi-chip modules and capacitive chips 2020-06-16 $26,854,000
10607995 Memory arrays Martin C. Roberts, Sanh D. Tang 2020-03-31 $9,822,000
10483043 Apparatuses, multi-chip modules and capacitive chips 2019-11-19 $13,655,000
10418182 Apparatuses, multi-chip modules and capacitive chips 2019-09-17 $14,199,000
10236127 Apparatuses, multi-chip modules and capacitive chips 2019-03-19 $43,582,000
10014115 Apparatuses, multi-chip modules and capacitive chips 2018-07-03 $23,880,000
9767962 Apparatuses, multi-chip modules and capacitive chips 2017-09-19 $9,017,000
8687426 Multi-semiconductor material vertical memory strings, strings of memory cells having individually biasable channel regions, memory arrays incorporating such strings, and methods of accesssing and forming the same 2014-04-01 $8,870,000
8580666 Methods of forming conductive contacts Terrence B. McDaniel, Sandra Tagg 2013-11-12 $5,415,000
8395941 Multi-semiconductor material vertical memory strings, strings of memory cells having individually biasable channel regions, memory arrays incorporating such strings, and methods of accessing and forming the same 2013-03-12 $2,780,000
8273619 Methods of implanting dopant into channel regions Hongmei Wang, Kurt D. Beigel, Rongsheng Yang 2012-09-25 $2,699,000
8232206 Methods of forming electrical contacts to structures that are at different heights over a substrate relative to one another Nishant Sinha, Dinesh Chopra 2012-07-31 $6,875,000
8163613 Methods of forming a plurality of capacitors 2012-04-24 $3,643,000
8026542 Low resistance peripheral local interconnect contacts with selective wet strip of titanium Terrence B. McDaniel, Sandra Tagg 2011-09-27 $2,769,000
7935602 Semiconductor processing methods Hongmei Wang, Janos Fucsko, T. Earl Allen, Richard H. Lane, Robert J. Hanson +1 more 2011-05-03 $4,193,000
7767514 Methods of implanting dopant into channel regions Hongmei Wang, Kurt D. Beigel, Rongsheng Yang 2010-08-03 $2,326,000
7759193 Methods of forming a plurality of capacitors 2010-07-20 $2,641,000
7713817 Methods of forming semiconductor structures Nishant Sinha, Dinesh Chopra 2010-05-11 $4,723,000
7674670 Methods of forming threshold voltage implant regions Hongmei Wang, Kurt D. Beigel, Rongsheng Yang 2010-03-09 $4,533,000
7659161 Methods of forming storage nodes for a DRAM array Luan C. Tran 2010-02-09 $4,497,000