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Michael Ball — 32 Patents

Micron: 25 patents #734 of 6,374Top 15%
SCSprint International Communications: 1 patents #4 of 30Top 15%
VLVws (Uk) Limited: 1 patents #6 of 12Top 50%
Silver Spring, MD: #21 of 1,812 inventorsTop 2%
Maryland: #527 of 35,612 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Michael Ball has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in March 2021. Michael Ball ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Michael Ball in Silver Spring, MD, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10961144 Method and apparatus for providing ultrapure water Ignazio Dentici, Nigel EMERY 2021-03-30
6855623 Recessed tape and method for forming a BGA assembly 2005-02-15 $2,024,000
6641459 Method for conserving a resource by flow interruption 2003-11-04 $4,567,000
6621147 In-process device with grooved coating layer on a semiconductor wafer for relieving surface tension 2003-09-16 $4,026,000
6539855 Method and apparatus for screen printing 2003-04-01 $2,471,000
6403449 Method of relieving surface tension on a semiconductor wafer 2002-06-11 $5,486,000
6399464 Packaging die preparation Tom A. Muntifering, Steven W. Heppler 2002-06-04 $5,091,000
6394119 Method for conserving a resource by flow interruption 2002-05-28 $5,676,000
6371840 Method and apparatus for processing a planar structure Steve W. Heppler 2002-04-16 $5,837,000
6363968 System for conserving a resource by flow interruption 2002-04-02 $5,739,000
6354917 Method of processing a wafer utilizing a processing slurry 2002-03-12 $8,055,000
6351022 Method and apparatus for processing a planar structure Steve W. Heppler 2002-02-26 $9,328,000
6289803 Method and apparatus for screen printing 2001-09-18 $7,737,000
6240942 Method for conserving a resource by flow interruption 2001-06-05 $14,232,000
6234077 Method and apparatus for screen printing 2001-05-22 $16,243,000
6234874 Wafer processing apparatus 2001-05-22 $16,243,000
6165887 Method of improving interconnect of semiconductor devices by using a flattened ball bond 2000-12-26 $11,316,000
6162703 Packaging die preparation Tom A. Muntifering, Steven W. Heppler 2000-12-19 $13,738,000
6120360 Apparatus for processing a planar structure Steve W. Heppler 2000-09-19 $14,959,000
6116988 Method of processing a wafer utilizing a processing slurry 2000-09-12 $16,941,000
6074286 Wafer processing apparatus and method of processing a wafer utilizing a processing slurry 2000-06-13 $38,604,000
5920769 Method and apparatus for processing a planar structure Steve W. Heppler 1999-07-06 $14,174,000
5827111 Method and apparatus for grinding wafers 1998-10-27 $13,948,000
5827112 Method and apparatus for grinding wafers 1998-10-27 $13,948,000
5652841 Method and apparatus for aggregating terminals into clusters to assist in the construction of a distributed data communication network Paul Nemirovsky, Roy Dahl 1997-07-29