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Markus Balb — 20 Patents

Micron: 10 patents #1,567 of 6,374Top 25%
Infineon Technologies Ag: 4 patents #2,109 of 7,486Top 30%
QAQimonda Ag: 4 patents #85 of 575Top 15%
LGLantiq Deutschland Gmbh: 2 patents #47 of 181Top 30%
Ottobrunn, DE: #18 of 341 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Markus Balb has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in June 2025. Markus Balb ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Markus Balb in Ottobrunn, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2023.peak 32006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 2 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12334172 Link evaluation for a memory device Thomas Hein, Heinz Hoenigschmid 2025-06-17
12237953 Multi-level signaling in memory with wide system interface Timothy M. Hollis, Ralf Ebert 2025-02-25
12099746 Interrupt signaling for a memory device Thomas Hein, Heinz Hoenigschmid 2024-09-24 $58,106,000
11775378 Memory health status reporting Thomas Hein, Heinz Hoenigschmid 2023-10-03 $10,230,000
11693602 Detection of illegal commands Michael Richter 2023-07-04
11615862 Link evaluation for a memory device Thomas Hein, Heinz Hoenigschmid 2023-03-28 $13,032,000
11354064 Detection of illegal commands Michael Richter 2022-06-07 $13,376,000
11233681 Multi-level signaling in memory with wide system interface Timothy M. Hollis, Ralf Ebert 2022-01-25 $28,129,000
10686634 Multi-level signaling in memory with wide system interface Timothy M. Hollis, Ralf Ebert 2020-06-16 $26,854,000
10425260 Multi-level signaling in memory with wide system interface Timothy M. Hollis, Ralf Ebert 2019-09-24 $13,848,000
8392779 Interface voltage adjustment based on error detection Andreas Schneider, Thomas Hein, Christoph Bilger, Martin Brox, Peter Gregorius +1 more 2013-03-05
8305834 Semiconductor memory with memory cell portions having different access speeds Michael Richter, Christoph Bilger, Martin Brox, Peter Gregorius, Thomas Hein +1 more 2012-11-06
8125924 Method and devices for transferring data Dieter Gleis 2012-02-28
8042023 Memory system with cyclic redundancy check 2011-10-18
7869422 Receiving data comprising synchronization information Ivan Kelava, Burkart Schneiderheinze 2011-01-11
7757064 Method and apparatus for sending data from a memory Peter Mayer, Wolfgang Anton Spirkl, Christoph Bilger, Martin Brox, Thomas Hein +1 more 2010-07-13
7746724 Asynchronous data transmission Peter Mayer, Wolfgang Anton Spirkl, Christoph Bilger, Martin Brox, Thomas Hein +1 more 2010-06-29
7515456 Memory circuit, a dynamic random access memory, a system comprising a memory and a floating point unit and a method for storing digital data Peter Mayer, Wolfgang Anton Spirkl, Christoph Bilger, Martin Brox, Thomas Hein +1 more 2009-04-07 $184,000
7439761 Apparatus and method for controlling a driver strength Peter Mayer, Wolfgang Anton Spirkl, Christoph Bilger, Martin Brox, Thomas Hein +1 more 2008-10-21 $479,000
6990159 Circuit for generating clock pulses in a communications system Ralf Schedel, Walter Fiessinger 2006-01-24 $103,000