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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Scott L. Light — 44 Patents

Micron: 42 patents #453 of 6,374Top 8%
NTNanya Technology: 2 patents #292 of 775Top 40%
Boise, ID: #245 of 3,546 inventorsTop 7%
Idaho: #328 of 8,810 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Scott L. Light has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in August 2025. Scott L. Light ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Scott L. Light in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2014.peak 82002: 1 patents20022003: 3 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2013: 5 patents20132014: 8 patents2015: 5 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12394711 Microelectronic devices with staircased stadiums and both through-step and to-step contacts, and related systems and methods Harsh Narendrakumar Jain, Shruthi Kumara Vadivel, Shuangqiang Luo 2025-08-19
12022647 Microelectronic devices including memory cell structures, and related methods and electronic systems Stephen D. Snyder, Thomas A. Figura, Siva Naga Sandeep Chalamalasetty, Ping Chieh Chiang, Yashvi Singh +2 more 2024-06-25 $27,776,000
11812603 Microelectronic devices including semiconductive pillar structures, and related electronic systems Si-Woo Lee, Song Guo 2023-11-07 $14,606,000
11515198 Semiconductor constructions comprising dielectric material, and methods of forming dielectric fill within openings extending into semiconductor constructions Gurtej S. Sandhu, John Smythe, Sony Varghese 2022-11-29 $10,551,000
11501804 Microelectronic devices including semiconductive pillar structures, and related electronic systems Fredrick Fishburn, Si-Woo Lee, Song Guo 2022-11-15 $13,792,000
11195838 Arrays of capacitors, methods used in forming integrated circuitry, and methods used in forming an array of capacitors 2021-12-07 $25,164,000
11158571 Devices including conductive interconnect structures, related electronic systems, and related methods Jonathan Doebler 2021-10-26 $16,064,000
10998224 Semiconductor devices comprising conductive patterns of varying dimensions and related systems Richard J. Hill 2021-05-04 $18,454,000
10763155 Semiconductor constructions comprising dielectric material, and methods of forming dielectric fill within openings extending into semiconductor constructions Gurtej S. Sandhu, John Smythe, Sony Varghese 2020-09-01 $15,473,000
10522395 Methods of forming a pattern Richard J. Hill 2019-12-31 $19,928,000
10153195 Semiconductor constructions comprising dielectric material Gurtej S. Sandhu, John Smythe, Sony Varghese 2018-12-11 $7,538,000
9583381 Methods for forming semiconductor devices and semiconductor device structures Ranjan Khurana, Michael Hyatt, Kevin J. Torek, Anton J. deVilliers 2017-02-28 $18,955,000
9465287 Methods of forming patterns for semiconductor device structures Yuan He, Michael A. Many, Michael Hyatt 2016-10-11 $11,335,000
9330914 Methods of forming line patterns in substrates Vishal Sipani, Michael Hyatt 2016-05-03 $6,091,000
9235134 Lens heating compensation in photolithography Yuan He, Kaveri Jain, Lijing Gou, Zishu Zhang, Anton J. deVilliers +3 more 2016-01-12 $5,575,000
9213239 Methods of forming patterns for semiconductor device structures Yuan He, Michael A. Many, Michael Hyatt 2015-12-15 $10,866,000
9176385 Lithography methods, methods for forming patterning tools and patterning tools Jianming Zhou, David A. Kewley, Prasanna Srinivasan, Anton J. deVilliers 2015-11-03 $7,896,000
9153458 Methods of forming a pattern on a substrate Anton J. deVilliers 2015-10-06 $10,070,000
9140977 Imaging devices, methods of forming same, and methods of forming semiconductor device structures Yuan He, Kaveri Jain, Lijing Gou, Zishu Zhang, Anton J. deVilliers +3 more 2015-09-22 $10,853,000
8969214 Methods of forming a pattern on a substrate Kyle Armstrong, Michael Hyatt, Vishal Sipani 2015-03-03 $13,945,000
8889558 Methods of forming a pattern on a substrate Ranjan Khurana, Anton J. deVillers, Kevin J. Torek, Shane J. Trapp, James M. Buntin 2014-11-18 $16,182,000
8883372 Reticle with composite polarizer and method of simultaneous optimization of imaging of a set of different patterns Dan B. Millward, Anton J. deVilliers, Yuan He, Michael Hyatt, Lijing Gou +3 more 2014-11-11
8845908 Reticles, and methods of mitigating asymmetric lens heating in photolithography Dan B. Millward, Yuan He, Kaveri Jain, Lijing Gou, Zishu Zhang +3 more 2014-09-30 $13,656,000
8815497 Semiconductor constructions and methods of forming patterns Dan B. Millward, Kaveri Jain, Zishu Zhang, Lijing Gou, Anton J. deVillers +3 more 2014-08-26 $14,612,000
8736814 Lithography wave-front control system and method Yuan He, Jianming Zhou, Anton J. deVilliers, Kaveri Jain, Zishu Zhang +1 more 2014-05-27 $8,446,000