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Kim Pierce — 15 Patents

Micron: 15 patents #1,144 of 6,374Top 20%
Meridian, ID: #84 of 654 inventorsTop 15%
Idaho: #919 of 8,810 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Kim Pierce has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in January 2006. Kim Pierce ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Kim Pierce in Meridian, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2001.peak 41997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 3 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 4 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 3 patents20032006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6983404 Method and apparatus for checking the resistance of programmable elements Douglas J. Cutter, Adrian E. Ong, Fan Ho, Kurt D. Beigel, Brett Debenham +2 more 2006-01-03 $1,955,000
6665827 Semiconductor integrated circuit having compression circuitry for compressing test data, and the test system for utilizing the semiconductor integrated circuit Roland Ochoa, Gregory L. Cowan 2003-12-16 $2,294,000
6546512 Semiconductor integrated circuit having compression circuitry for compressing test data, and the test system and method for utilizing the semiconductor integrated circuit Roland Ochoa, Gregory L. Cowan 2003-04-08 $1,677,000
6536004 On-chip circuit and method for testing memory devices Charles L. Ingalls 2003-03-18 $2,171,000
6365421 Method and apparatus for storage of test results within an integrated circuit Brett Debenham, Douglas J. Cutter, Kurt D. Beigel, Fan Ho, Patrick J. Mullarkey +6 more 2002-04-02 $5,739,000
6314538 Semiconductor integrated circuit having compression circuitry for compressing test data, and the test system and method for utilizing the semiconductor integrated circuit Roland Ochoa, Gregory L. Cowan 2001-11-06 $8,308,000
6194738 Method and apparatus for storage of test results within an integrated circuit Brett Debenham, Douglas J. Cutter, Kurt D. Beigel, Fan Ho, Patrick J. Mullarkey +6 more 2001-02-27 $17,116,000
6185705 Method and apparatus for checking the resistance of programmable elements Douglas J. Cutter, Adrian E. Ong, Fan Ho, Kurt D. Beigel, Brett Debenham +2 more 2001-02-06 $20,178,000
6178532 On-chip circuit and method for testing memory devices Charles L. Ingalls 2001-01-23 $25,455,000
6154410 Method and apparatus for reducing antifuse programming time Douglas J. Cutter, Kurt D. Beigel, Adrian E. Ong, Fan Ho, Patrick J. Mullarkey +2 more 2000-11-28 $15,595,000
5982656 Method and apparatus for checking the resistance of programmable elements Douglas J. Cutter, Fan Ho, Kurt D. Beigel, Brett Debenham, Dien Luong +1 more 1999-11-09 $11,356,000
5935263 Method and apparatus for memory array compressed data testing Brent Keeth, Troy A. Manning, Chris G. Martin, Wallace E. Fister, Kevin J. Ryan +3 more 1999-08-10 $9,852,000
5864565 Semiconductor integrated circuit having compression circuitry for compressing test data, and the test system and method for utilizing the semiconductor integrated circuit Roland Ochoa, Gregory L. Cowan 1999-01-26 $24,618,000
5706238 Self current limiting antifuse circuit Douglas J. Cutter, Kurt D. Beigel, Adrian E. Ong, Fan Ho, Patrick J. Mullarkey +2 more 1998-01-06 $11,634,000
5631862 Self current limiting antifuse circuit Douglas J. Cutter, Kurt D. Beigel, Adrian E. Ong, Fan Ho, Patrick J. Mullarkey +2 more 1997-05-20 $38,218,000