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Michael Sheperek — 105 Patents

Micron: 102 patents #149 of 6,374Top 3%
TITexas Instruments: 2 patents #5,266 of 12,488Top 45%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 1 patents #1,874 of 3,180Top 60%
Longmont, CO: #7 of 2,039 inventorsTop 1%
Colorado: #77 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,163 of 4,157,543Top 1%
105 Patents All Time
Michael Sheperek has been granted 105 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in November 2025. Michael Sheperek ranks #13,163 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.32%). Patent records list Michael Sheperek in Longmont, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 38 patents in 2023.peak 382006: 2 patents20062016: 1 patents20162020: 11 patents20202021: 12 patents20212022: 24 patents20222023: 38 patents20232024: 10 patents20242025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 105 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12482530 Tracking and refreshing state metrics in memory sub-systems Bruce A. Liikanen, Steven Michael Kientz 2025-11-25
12423013 Open block family duration limited by temperature variation Larry J. Koudele, Bruce A. Liikanen, Steven Michael Kientz 2025-09-23
12424288 Adjustment of program verify targets corresponding to a last programming distribution and a programming distribution adjacent to an initial programming distribution Bruce A. Liikanen, Larry J. Koudele 2025-09-23
12417158 Closing block family based on soft and hard closure criteria Larry J. Koudele, Steven S. Williams 2025-09-16
12334166 Data integrity checks based on voltage distribution metrics Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Christopher M. Smitchger 2025-06-17
12307111 Block family-based error avoidance for memory devices Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Bruce A. Liikanen, Peter Feeley +3 more 2025-05-20
12293099 Open block family duration limited by time and temperature Larry J. Koudele, Bruce A. Liikanen, Steven Michael Kientz, Kishore Kumar Muchherla 2025-05-06
12125539 Adjustment of a starting voltage corresponding to a program operation in a memory sub-system Bruce A. Liikanen, Larry J. Koudele 2024-10-22 $36,004,000
12040026 Adjustment of program verify targets corresponding to a last programming distribution and a programming distribution adjacent to an initial programming distribution Bruce A. Liikanen, Larry J. Koudele 2024-07-16 $30,823,000
11983065 Logic based read sample offset in a memory sub-system Bruce A. Liikanen 2024-05-14 $30,364,000
11955194 Tracking and refreshing state metrics in memory sub-systems Bruce A. Liikanen, Steven Michael Kientz 2024-04-09 $33,276,000
11941277 Combination scan management for block families of a memory device Shane Nowell, Larry J. Koudele, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu 2024-03-26 $24,732,000
11940892 Closing block family based on soft and hard closure criteria Larry J. Koudele, Steven S. Williams 2024-03-26 $24,732,000
11915776 Error avoidance based on voltage distribution parameters of block families Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Shane Nowell, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Larry J. Koudele 2024-02-27 $14,682,000
11908536 First-pass continuous read level calibration Larry J. Koudele, Bruce A. Liikanen 2024-02-20 $18,735,000
11886726 Block family-based error avoidance for memory devices Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Bruce A. Liikanen, Peter Feeley +3 more 2024-01-30 $12,191,000
11862274 Determination of state metrics of memory sub-systems following power events Bruce A. Liikanen, Steven Michael Kientz 2024-01-02 $12,628,000
11853556 Combining sets of memory blocks in a memory device Steven Michael Kientz, Larry J. Koudele, Shane Nowell, Bruce A. Liikanen 2023-12-26 $15,560,000
11842061 Open block family duration limited by temperature variation Larry J. Koudele, Bruce A. Liikanen, Steven Michael Kientz 2023-12-12 $21,682,000
11842772 Voltage bin boundary calibration at memory device power up Bruce A. Liikanen, Steve Kientz 2023-12-12 $21,682,000
11837291 Voltage offset bin selection by die group for memory devices Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Larry J. Koudele, Shane Nowell 2023-12-05 $17,549,000
11817152 Generating embedded data in memory cells in a memory sub-system Bruce A. Liikanen, Larry J. Koudele 2023-11-14 $19,045,000
11810631 Data integrity checks based on voltage distribution metrics Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Christopher M. Smitchger 2023-11-07 $14,606,000
11791004 Threshold voltage offset bin selection based on die family in memory devices Bruce A. Liikanen, Steve Kientz, Anita Ekren, Gerald L. Cadloni 2023-10-17 $12,590,000
11789640 Estimation of read level thresholds using a data structure Larry J. Koudele, Bruce A. Liikanen 2023-10-17 $12,590,000