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Michael P. Violette — 123 Patents

Micron: 108 patents #135 of 6,374Top 3%
OTOvonyx Memory Technology: 7 patents #2 of 30Top 7%
Sony: 4 patents #9,005 of 25,231Top 40%
LGLodestar Licensing Group: 2 patents #11 of 80Top 15%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Boise, ID: #57 of 3,546 inventorsTop 2%
Idaho: #75 of 8,810 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #9,462 of 4,157,543Top 1%
123 Patents All Time
Michael P. Violette has been granted 123 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in August 2025. Michael P. Violette ranks #9,462 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.23%). Patent records list Michael P. Violette in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2005.peak 101994: 2 patents19941997: 1 patents1998: 4 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 6 patents2001: 7 patents2002: 8 patents20022003: 5 patents2004: 4 patents2005: 10 patents20052006: 3 patents2007: 4 patents2008: 7 patents20082010: 3 patents2011: 4 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 6 patents2015: 5 patents20152016: 6 patents2017: 3 patents2018: 6 patents20182019: 5 patents2020: 6 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 2 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 123 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12382726 Capacitor structures Vladimir Mikhalev 2025-08-05
12362244 Memory device including circuitry under bond pads Chiara Cerafogli, Kenneth W. Marr, Brian J. Soderling, Joshua Daniel Tomayer, James E. Davis 2025-07-15
12310010 Transistors with raised extension regions and semiconductor fins Haitao Liu, Mark A. Helm, Guangyu Huang, Vladimir Mikhalev 2025-05-20
11935883 Capacitor structures and apparatus containing such capacitor structures Vladimir Mikhalev 2024-03-19
11756792 Apparatus having integrated circuit well structures of vertical and/or retrograde profiles Vladimir Mikhalev 2023-09-12 $13,618,000
11569221 Methods of forming capacitor structures Vladimir Mikhalev 2023-01-31 $12,340,000
11424169 Memory device including circuitry under bond pads Chiara Cerafogli, Kenneth W. Marr, Brian J. Soderling, Joshua Daniel Tomayer, James E. Davis 2022-08-23 $12,962,000
11349072 Resistive memory architectures with multiple memory cells per access device Jun Liu 2022-05-31
11063034 Capacitor structures Vladimir Mikhalev 2021-07-13 $25,382,000
10879459 Phase change memory cell with constriction structure Jun Liu 2020-12-29 $14,732,000
10847722 Buried low-resistance metal word lines for cross-point variable-resistance material memories Jun Liu 2020-11-24 $15,546,000
10797237 Resistive memory architectures with multiple memory cells per access device Jun Liu 2020-10-06 $13,623,000
10777739 Phase change memory cell with constriction structure Jun Liu 2020-09-15 $12,657,000
10727062 Methods of forming integrated circuit well structures Vladimir Mikhalev 2020-07-28 $14,436,000
10573812 Buried low-resistance metal word lines for cross-point variable-resistance material memories Jun Liu 2020-02-25 $17,014,000
10453829 Method and apparatus for reducing capacitance of input/output pins of memory device Merri L. Carlson, Hongbin Zhu, Gordon A. Haller, James E. Davis, Kevin G. Duesman +1 more 2019-10-22 $16,310,000
10446750 Apparatuses including memory devices and related electronic systems Jun Liu 2019-10-15
10424729 Resistive memory architectures with multiple memory cells per access device Jun Liu 2019-09-24
10276635 Memory device having self-aligned cell structure Jun Liu 2019-04-30 $26,022,000
10199227 Method for fabricating a metal high-k gate stack for a buried recessed access device Satoru Mayuzumi, Mark Fischer 2019-02-05 $460,000
10164186 Methods of operating memory devices and electronic systems Jun Liu 2018-12-25
10090464 Buried low-resistance metal word lines for cross-point variable-resistance material memories Jun Liu 2018-10-02 $16,577,000
10008664 Phase change memory cell with constriction structure Jun Liu 2018-06-26 $32,156,000
9997701 Resistive memory architectures with multiple memory cells per access device Jun Liu 2018-06-12
9954075 Thyristor random access memory device and method Sanh D. Tang, John K. Zahurak 2018-04-24 $55,411,000