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Nathaniel J. Meier — 46 Patents

Micron: 36 patents #524 of 6,374Top 9%
Boise, ID: #229 of 3,546 inventorsTop 7%
Idaho: #307 of 8,810 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Nathaniel J. Meier has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in November 2025. Nathaniel J. Meier ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Nathaniel J. Meier in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2019 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2021.peak 122019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 12 patents20212022: 8 patents20222023: 6 patents20232024: 11 patents20242025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12469539 Apparatus with refresh management mechanism James S. Rehmeyer, David A. Brown 2025-11-11
12360921 Semiconductor device with secure access key and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2025-07-15
12333022 Row access strobe (RAS) clobber and row hammer failure mitigation Yang Lu, Markus H. Geiger 2025-06-17
12334138 Dynamic address scramble Erik T. Barmon, Yang Lu, Kang-Yong Kim 2025-06-17
12265630 Row access strobe (RAS) clobber and row hammer failures using a deterministic protocol Yang Lu, Markus H. Geiger 2025-04-01
12216806 Semiconductor device with self-lock security and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2025-02-04
12183383 Methods for row hammer mitigation and memory devices and systems employing the same Timothy B. Cowles, Dean D. Gans, Jiyun Li, Randall J. Rooney 2024-12-31
12105644 Semiconductor device with secure access key and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2024-10-01
12099639 Semiconductor device with secure access key and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2024-09-24
12086270 Mediating directed refresh management induced row hammer and row access strobe (RAS) clobber failures Yang Lu, Markus H. Geiger 2024-09-10 $19,817,000
12056063 Refresh and access modes for memory 2024-08-06
11984148 Apparatuses and methods for tracking victim rows Daniel B. Penney, Jason M. Brown, Timothy B. Cowles, Jiyun Li 2024-05-14 $30,364,000
11972788 Apparatuses, systems, and methods for controller directed targeted refresh operations based on sampling command Michael A. Shore 2024-04-30 $40,502,000
11954049 Semiconductor device with secure access key and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2024-04-09
11922050 Host refresh control Geoffrey B. Luken, Markus H. Geiger 2024-03-05 $17,899,000
11915737 Apparatus with refresh management mechanism James S. Rehmeyer, David R. Brown 2024-02-27
11886745 Illegal operation reaction at a memory device 2024-01-30 $12,191,000
11810610 Methods for row hammer mitigation and memory devices and systems employing the same Timothy B. Cowles, Dean D. Gans, Jiyun Li, Randall J. Rooney 2023-11-07
11798610 Apparatuses and methods for controlling steal rates Timothy B. Cowles, Jiyun Li, Beau D. Barry, Matthew D. Jenkinson, Michael A. Shore +2 more 2023-10-24
11748276 Refresh and access modes for memory 2023-09-05 $12,684,000
11704255 Semiconductor device with secure access key and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2023-07-18 $8,312,000
11644981 Semiconductor devices with security lock and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2023-05-09 $19,484,000
11610622 Apparatuses and methods for staggered timing of skipped refresh operations James S. Rehmeyer, Joo-Sang Lee 2023-03-21 $22,623,000
11532358 Memory with automatic background precondition upon powerup Anthony D. Veches, Debra M. Bell, James S. Rehmeyer, Robert Bunnell 2022-12-20 $19,538,000
11520711 Semiconductor device with secure access key and associated methods and systems Brenton P. Van Leeuwen 2022-12-06 $18,045,000