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Scott E. Smith — 85 Patents

Micron: 64 patents #265 of 6,374Top 5%
TITexas Instruments: 15 patents #895 of 12,488Top 8%
NTNanya Technology: 2 patents #292 of 775Top 40%
Plano, TX: #33 of 4,842 inventorsTop 1%
Texas: #624 of 125,132 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,018 of 4,157,543Top 1%
85 Patents All Time
Scott E. Smith has been granted 85 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in December 2025. Scott E. Smith ranks #20,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.48%). Patent records list Scott E. Smith in Plano, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 85 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511191 Apparatuses and methods for enhanced metadata support Sujeet Ayyapureddi 2025-12-30
12512176 Apparatuses and methods for enhanced metadata support Sujeet Ayyapureddi 2025-12-30
12488853 Apparatuses and methods for single-pass access of ECC information, metadata information or combinations thereof Sujeet Ayyapureddi 2025-12-02
12475965 Apparatuses and methods for configurable ECC modes Sujeet Ayyapureddi 2025-11-18
12437800 Row clear features for memory devices and associated methods and systems Miles S. Wiscombe, Gary L. Howe, Brian Huber, Tony M. Brewer 2025-10-07
12424259 Techniques for flexible self-refresh of memory arrays Anthony D. Veches 2025-09-23
12393344 Apparatuses and methods for die replacement in stacked memory 2025-08-19
12326781 Semiconductor device with modified access and associated methods and systems Aaron Jannusch, Brett K. Dodds, Debra M. Bell, Joshua E. Alzheimer 2025-06-10
12271623 Metadata implementation for memory devices Sujeet Ayyapureddi 2025-04-08
12189414 Memory device clock swapping Kallol Mazumder, Navya Sri Sreeram 2025-01-07
12165690 Adjusting refresh rate during self-refresh state John E. Riley, Joo-Sang Lee 2024-12-10 $27,965,000
12087394 Synchronous input buffer control using a ripple counter Brian W. Huber, Gary L. Howe 2024-09-10 $19,817,000
12068021 Low power clock injection during idle mode operations Noriaki Mochida, Takayuki Miyamoto, Kallol Mazumder 2024-08-20 $25,472,000
11942404 Apparatuses and systems having ball grid arrays and associated microelectronic devices and device packages Matthew B. Leslie, Timothy M. Hollis, Scott R. Cyr, Stephen F. Moxham, Matthew A. Prather 2024-03-26 $24,732,000
11915775 Apparatuses and methods for bad row mode Jack Riley, Christian Mohr, Gary L. Howe, Joshua E. Alzheimer, Yoshinori Fujiwara +2 more 2024-02-27 $14,682,000
11908509 Apparatus with input signal quality feedback John E. Riley, Jennifer E. Taylor, Gary L. Howe 2024-02-20 $18,735,000
11881251 Row clear features for memory devices and associated methods and systems Miles S. Wiscombe, Gary L. Howe, Brian W. Huber, Tony M. Brewer 2024-01-23
11869592 Apparatuses and methods for decoding addresses for memory Gary L. Howe 2024-01-09
11848070 Memory with DQS pulse control circuitry, and associated systems, devices, and methods Mijo Kim, Si-Hong Kim 2023-12-19 $18,498,000
11842985 Semiconductor devices having through-stack interconnects for facilitating connectivity testing Christian Mohr 2023-12-12 $21,682,000
11837316 Apparatuses and methods to mask write operations Harish V. Gadamsetty 2023-12-05 $17,549,000
11803501 Routing assignments based on error correction capabilities Randy Brian Drake, Brian J. Ladner, Thanh K. Mai, Sujeet Ayyapureddi, Matthew A. Prather 2023-10-31 $23,242,000
11710534 Internal data availability for system debugging Christian Mohr, Manoj Vijay 2023-07-25 $13,773,000
11687403 Semiconductor device with modified access and associated methods and systems Aaron Jannusch, Brett K. Dodds, Debra M. Bell, Joshua E. Alzheimer 2023-06-27 $8,383,000
11556248 Apparatuses and methods for different burst lengths for stacked die 2023-01-17 $11,545,000