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Ralph Kauffman — 22 Patents

Micron: 20 patents #903 of 6,374Top 15%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
San Jose, CA: #2,945 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Ralph Kauffman has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in December 2019. Ralph Kauffman ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Ralph Kauffman in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 3 patents2000: 5 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 2 patents20022004: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10497682 Backplane LED integration and functionalization structures Imran Hashim, Vaibhav D. Patel, Hsin-Hua Hu, Kapil V. Sakariya 2019-12-03 $109,496,000
8981578 Sensor array package Matthew E. Last, Lili Huang, Seung Jae Hong, Tongbi Jiang 2015-03-17
7432148 Shallow trench isolation by atomic-level silicon reconstruction Jiutao Li, Richard A. Mauritzson 2008-10-07 $1,422,000
7057285 Aluminum interconnects with metal silicide diffusion barriers Ruojia Lee, J. Dennis Keller 2006-06-06 $2,297,000
6787428 Aluminum-filled self-aligned trench for stacked capacitor structure and methods Ruojia Lee, J. Dennis Keller 2004-09-07 $988,000
6720605 Aluminum-filled self-aligned trench for stacked capacitor structure and methods Ruojia Lee, J. Dennis Keller 2004-04-13 $3,079,000
6489244 Fuse, memory incorporating same and method Roger Lee, Dennis Keller 2002-12-03 $5,518,000
6465319 Aluminum-filled self-aligned trench for stacked capacitor structure and methods Ruojia Lee, J. Dennis Keller 2002-10-15 $3,142,000
6274902 Nonvolatile floating gate memory with improved interpoly dielectric Roger Lee 2001-08-14 $11,619,000
6232210 Fuse, memory incorporating same and method Roger Lee, Dennis Keller 2001-05-15 $12,663,000
6177311 Method for making a floating gate memory with improved interpoly dielectric Roger Lee 2001-01-23 $25,455,000
6165863 Aluminum-filled self-aligned trench for stacked capacitor structure and methods Ruojia Lee, J. Dennis Keller 2000-12-26 $11,316,000
6157059 Nonvolatile floating gate memory with improved interpoly dielectric Roger Lee 2000-12-05 $14,390,000
6137133 Programmable non-volatile memory cell and method of forming a non-volatile memory cell Roger Lee 2000-10-24 $10,323,000
6130468 Fuse, memory incorporating same and method Roger Lee, Dennis Keller 2000-10-10 $23,457,000
6117728 Programmable non-volatile memory cell and method of forming a non-volatile memory cell Roger Lee 2000-09-12 $16,941,000
5780891 Nonvolatile floating gate memory with improved interploy dielectric Roger Lee 1998-07-14 $5,269,000
5751039 Programmable non-volatile memory cell and method of forming a non-volatile memory cell Roger Lee 1998-05-12 $5,079,000
5736444 Methods of forming non-volatile memory arrays Roger Lee 1998-04-07 $8,439,000
5661054 Method of forming a non-volatile memory array Roger Lee 1997-08-26 $14,990,000
5416045 Method for chemical vapor depositing a titanium nitride layer on a semiconductor wafer and method of annealing tin films Michael J. Prucha, James A. Beck, Randhir P. S. Thakur, Annette L. Martin 1995-05-16 $26,145,000
5360769 Method for fabricating hybrid oxides for thinner gate devices Randhir P. S. Thakur, Annette L. Martin 1994-11-01 $10,111,000