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James E. O'Toole — 61 Patents

Micron: 36 patents #527 of 6,374Top 9%
STSandisk Technologies: 13 patents #273 of 2,224Top 15%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 3 patents #1,011 of 3,180Top 35%
RRRound Rock Research: 3 patents #66 of 239Top 30%
KSKeystone Technology Solutions: 2 patents #5 of 18Top 30%
MOMostek: 2 patents #16 of 83Top 20%
Lockheed Martin: 1 patents #2,818 of 6,507Top 45%
TCThomson Components-Moster: 1 patents #17 of 45Top 40%
Boise, ID: #161 of 3,546 inventorsTop 5%
Idaho: #211 of 8,810 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
James E. O'Toole has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in December 2025. James E. O'Toole ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list James E. O'Toole in Boise, ID, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12499922 Current source for read of programmable resistance memory cells Christopher J. Petti, Ward Parkinson, Thomas Trent 2025-12-16
12237010 Concurrent multi-bit self-referenced read of programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point array Nathan Franklin, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis 2025-02-25
12205638 Concurrent write to programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point array Nathan Franklin, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis 2025-01-21
12148459 Cross-point array IHOLD read margin improvement Ward Parkinson, Thomas Trent, Nathan Franklin, Michael Grobis, James W. Reiner +2 more 2024-11-19
11971736 Current mirror circuits Ward Parkinson, Thomas Trent 2024-04-30
11854592 Signal amplification in MRAM during reading, including a pair of complementary transistors connected to an array line Ward Parkinson, Nathan Franklin, Thomas Trent 2023-12-26
11488662 Concurrent multi-bit access in cross-point array Nathan Franklin, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis 2022-11-01
11386945 Signal amplification in MRAM during reading, including a pair of complementary transistors connected to an array line Ward Parkinson, Nathan Franklin, Thomas Trent 2022-07-12
11328759 Signal preserve in MRAM during reading Ward Parkinson, Nathan Franklin, Thomas Trent 2022-05-10
11222678 MRAM cross-point memory with reversed MRAM element vertical orientation Ward Parkinson, Nathan Franklin, Thomas Trent 2022-01-11
10497438 Cross-point memory array addressing Won Ho Choi, Ward Parkinson, Zvonimir Z. Bandic, Martin Lueker-Boden 2019-12-03 $50,000
10438657 Resistance and gate control in decoder circuits for read and write optimization Ward Parkinson, Thomas Trent 2019-10-08 $91,000
10373682 Write set operation for memory device with bit line capacitor drive Ward Parkinson, Thomas Trent 2019-08-06 $64,000
10311921 Multiple-mode current sources for sense operations Ward Parkinson, Thomas Trent 2019-06-04
10255953 Bi-directional RRAM decoder-driver Ward Parkinson, Daniel R. Shepard, Thomas Trent 2019-04-09 $12,732,000
10192616 Ovonic threshold switch (OTS) driver/selector uses unselect bias to pre-charge memory chip circuit and reduces unacceptable false selects Ward Parkinson, Daniel R. Shepard, Thomas Trent 2019-01-29 $112,016,000
9887004 Bi-directional RRAM decoder-driver Ward Parkinson, Daniel R. Shepard, Thomas Trent 2018-02-06 $16,244,000
7825774 Radio frequency communications devices John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2010-11-02
7786845 Method and apparatus for wireless communication of identification information between radio frequency devices John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2010-08-31
7777610 Radio frequency identification apparatuses John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2010-08-17
7545256 System and method for identifying a radio frequency identification (RFID) device John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2009-06-09
7385477 Radio frequency data communications device John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler F. Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2008-06-10
7170867 Radio frequency data communications device John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2007-01-30 $2,478,000
7079043 Radio frequency data communications device John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2006-07-18 $2,294,000
6947513 Radio frequency data communications device John R. Tuttle, Mark E. Tuttle, Tyler Lowrey, Kevin M. Devereaux, George E. Pax +4 more 2005-09-20 $1,200,000