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Sangmin Hwang — 25 Patents

Micron: 20 patents #912 of 6,374Top 15%
Samsung: 3 patents #31,179 of 75,807Top 45%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 1 patents #2,081 of 4,473Top 50%
Boise, ID: #406 of 3,546 inventorsTop 15%
Idaho: #571 of 8,810 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Sangmin Hwang has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in December 2025. Sangmin Hwang ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Sangmin Hwang in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2022.peak 62016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 6 patents20222023: 5 patents20232024: 5 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12499847 Display device Kyong-Hoon Lee 2025-12-16
12150289 Microelectronic devices and memory devices Si-Woo Lee, Kyuseok Lee 2024-11-19 $41,420,000
12063797 Buried connection line for peripheral area of a memory device Kyuseok Lee, Byung Yoon Kim 2024-08-13 $56,175,000
12052858 Vertical contacts for semiconductor devices Byung Yoon Kim, Kyuseok Lee 2024-07-30 $28,317,000
12004341 Recessed channel fin integration Si-Woo Lee 2024-06-04 $27,497,000
11877445 Integrated assemblies and semiconductor memory devices Kyuseok Lee, Christopher G. Wieduwilt 2024-01-16 $31,326,000
11791260 Contacts for twisted conductive lines within memory arrays Byung Yoon Kim, Kyuseok Lee 2023-10-17 $12,590,000
11696432 Multi-direction conductive line and staircase contact for semiconductor devices Si-Woo Lee, Byung Yoon Kim, Kyuseok Lee, Mark A. Zaleski 2023-07-04
11631681 Vertical contacts for semiconductor devices Byung Yoon Kim, Kyuseok Lee 2023-04-18 $17,530,000
11594536 Integrated assemblies and semiconductor memory devices Yong Yang, Mohd Kamran Akhtar, Huyong Lee, Song Guo 2023-02-28 $15,268,000
11562670 Electronic device with illuminance sensor mounted at back side of display and method for measuring illuminance using illuminance sensor Jeongho Cho, Kyusung Kim, Jongah KIM, Heewoong YOON, Donghan Lee +1 more 2023-01-24
11462544 Array of recessed access gate lines Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr +1 more 2022-10-04 $12,913,000
11450375 Semiconductor memory devices including subword driver and layouts thereof Takefumi Shirako, Masahiro Yokomichi, Kyuseok Lee 2022-09-20 $11,519,000
11445058 Electronic device and method for controlling display operation thereof Jongjin Kim, Shinyoung NA, Sunmi PARK, Hansol Lee, Yoomi TAK 2022-09-13
11422609 Electronic device and method for controlling operation of display in same Shinyoung NA, Wonhee Lee, Kyusung Kim, Jongjin Kim, Yoomi TAK 2022-08-23
11393820 Vertical digit line for semiconductor devices Si-Woo Lee 2022-07-19 $10,980,000
11367726 Vertical digit lines for semiconductor devices Si-Woo Lee 2022-06-21 $17,591,000
10985165 Methods of forming microelectronic devices Si-Woo Lee, Kyuseok Lee 2021-04-20 $23,918,000
10714167 Apparatuses having memory strings compared to one another through a sense amplifier Tae H. Kim, Si-Woo Lee 2020-07-14 $16,930,000
10586586 Apparatuses including threshold voltage compensated sense amplifiers and methods for compensating same Kyuseok Lee, Si-Woo Lee 2020-03-10 $23,033,000
10366740 Apparatuses having memory strings compared to one another through a sense amplifier Tae H. Kim, Si-Woo Lee 2019-07-30 $13,881,000
10347322 Apparatuses having memory strings compared to one another through a sense amplifier Tae H. Kim, Si-Woo Lee 2019-07-09 $14,779,000
10163908 Array of conductive lines individually extending transversally across and elevationally over a mid-portion of individual active area regions Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr +1 more 2018-12-25
9792980 Three dimensional resistive memory architectures Frederick Perner, Kwangmyoung Rho, Jeong Hwan Kim, Jinwon Park, Jae-Yun Yi +2 more 2017-10-17 $10,985,000
9263455 Methods of forming an array of conductive lines and methods of forming an array of recessed access gate lines Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr +1 more 2016-02-16 $6,293,000