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Joel Drewes — 56 Patents

Micron: 52 patents #348 of 6,374Top 6%
RRRound Rock Research: 1 patents #177 of 239Top 75%
TBThermo Biostar: 1 patents #5 of 21Top 25%
Honeywell: 1 patents #12,607 of 16,504Top 80%
Boise, ID: #189 of 3,546 inventorsTop 6%
Idaho: #246 of 8,810 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Joel Drewes has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2013. Joel Drewes ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Joel Drewes in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2005.peak 112003: 2 patents20032004: 6 patents20042005: 11 patents20052006: 5 patents20062007: 9 patents20072008: 8 patents20082009: 6 patents20092010: 3 patents20102011: 4 patents20112013: 2 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8565016 System having improved surface planarity for bit material deposition Donald L. Yates 2013-10-22 $7,039,000
8368133 Memory constructions comprising magnetic materials 2013-02-05 $2,419,000
7947597 Methods of titanium deposition Cem Basceri, Demetrius Sarigiannis 2011-05-24 $4,812,000
7943507 Atomic layer deposition systems and methods including silicon-containing tantalum precursor compounds Nirmal Ramaswamy, Eugene P. Marsh 2011-05-17
7902580 Assemblies comprising magnetic elements and magnetic barrier or shielding 2011-03-08 $3,713,000
7884405 Method for production of MRAM elements 2011-02-08 $5,929,000
7855085 System and method for reducing shorting in memory cells James Geza Deak 2010-12-21 $4,496,000
7700480 Methods of titanium deposition Cem Basceri, Demetrius Sarigiannis 2010-04-20 $2,608,000
7662649 Methods for assessing alignments of substrates within deposition apparatuses; and methods for assessing thicknesses of deposited layers within deposition apparatuses Eric Blomiley, Nirmal Ramaswamy, Ross S. Dando 2010-02-16 $3,260,000
7622388 Methods of forming titanium-containing materials Jaydeb Goswami 2009-11-24 $4,463,000
7605417 Assemblies comprising magnetic elements and magnetic barrier or shielding at least partially around the magnetic elements 2009-10-20 $5,407,000
7585371 Substrate susceptors for receiving semiconductor substrates to be deposited upon Eric Blomiley, Nirmal Ramaswamy, Ross S. Dando, Danny Dynka 2009-09-08 $7,238,000
7538392 Pseudo SOI substrate and associated semiconductor devices Nirmal Ramaswamy, Eric Blomiley 2009-05-26 $2,939,000
7521356 Atomic layer deposition systems and methods including silicon-containing tantalum precursor compounds Nirmal Ramaswamy, Eugene P. Marsh 2009-04-21 $3,996,000
7517704 MRAM layer having domain wall traps 2009-04-14 $2,483,000
7470552 Method for production of MRAM elements 2008-12-30 $1,350,000
7426097 Giant magnetoresistive device with buffer-oxide layer between seed and ferromagnetic layers to provide smooth interfaces William Witcraft 2008-09-16 $14,337,000
7402879 Layered magnetic structures having improved surface planarity for bit material deposition Donald L. Yates 2008-07-22 $1,260,000
7402833 Multilayer dielectric tunnel barrier used in magnetic tunnel junction devices, and its method of fabrication 2008-07-22 $1,260,000
7375388 Device having improved surface planarity prior to MRAM bit material deposition Donald L. Yates 2008-05-20 $2,269,000
7371587 Method for reducing diffusion through ferromagnetic materials Terry Gafron 2008-05-13 $1,487,000
7361596 Semiconductor processing methods Jaydeb Goswami 2008-04-22 $3,044,000
7358553 System and method for reducing shorting in memory cells James Geza Deak 2008-04-15 $1,839,000
7267999 MRAM layer having domain wall traps 2007-09-11 $1,295,000
7268023 Method of forming a pseudo SOI substrate and semiconductor devices Nirmal Ramaswamy, Eric Blomiley 2007-09-11 $1,295,000