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Thomas Trent — 31 Patents

Micron: 10 patents #1,505 of 6,374Top 25%
STSandisk Technologies: 9 patents #380 of 2,224Top 20%
HGHgst: 3 patents #3 of 15Top 20%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 3 patents #1,011 of 3,180Top 35%
CSContour Semiconductor: 2 patents #4 of 11Top 40%
OVOvonyx: 2 patents #44 of 96Top 50%
Nashua, NH: #33 of 1,592 inventorsTop 3%
New Hampshire: #327 of 12,181 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Thomas Trent has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in December 2025. Thomas Trent ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Thomas Trent in Nashua, NH, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12499922 Current source for read of programmable resistance memory cells Christopher J. Petti, Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole 2025-12-16
12148459 Cross-point array IHOLD read margin improvement Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Nathan Franklin, Michael Grobis, James W. Reiner +2 more 2024-11-19
11971736 Current mirror circuits James E. O'Toole, Ward Parkinson 2024-04-30
11854592 Signal amplification in MRAM during reading, including a pair of complementary transistors connected to an array line Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Nathan Franklin 2023-12-26
11386945 Signal amplification in MRAM during reading, including a pair of complementary transistors connected to an array line Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Nathan Franklin 2022-07-12
11328759 Signal preserve in MRAM during reading Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Nathan Franklin 2022-05-10
11222678 MRAM cross-point memory with reversed MRAM element vertical orientation Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Nathan Franklin 2022-01-11
10438657 Resistance and gate control in decoder circuits for read and write optimization Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole 2019-10-08 $91,000
10373682 Write set operation for memory device with bit line capacitor drive Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole 2019-08-06 $64,000
10311921 Multiple-mode current sources for sense operations Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole 2019-06-04
10255953 Bi-directional RRAM decoder-driver James E. O'Toole, Ward Parkinson, Daniel R. Shepard 2019-04-09 $12,732,000
10192616 Ovonic threshold switch (OTS) driver/selector uses unselect bias to pre-charge memory chip circuit and reduces unacceptable false selects James E. O'Toole, Ward Parkinson, Daniel R. Shepard 2019-01-29 $112,016,000
9887004 Bi-directional RRAM decoder-driver James E. O'Toole, Ward Parkinson, Daniel R. Shepard 2018-02-06 $16,244,000
9812503 Embedded non-volatile memory Daniel R. Shepard, Mac D. Apodaca, James Hsu 2017-11-07
9431460 Embedded non-volatile memory Daniel R. Shepard, Mac D. Apodaca, James Hsu 2016-08-30
9349447 Controlling coupling in large cross-point memory arrays Ward Parkinson 2016-05-24
9054031 Embedded non-volatile memory Daniel R. Shepard, Mac D. Apodaca, James Hsu 2015-06-09
8786023 Embedded non-volatile memory Daniel R. Shepard, Mac D. Apodaca, James Hsu 2014-07-22
8767440 Sector array addressing for ECC management Ward Parkinson 2014-07-01
8537618 RAM memory device with NAND type interface Steven Jeffrey Grossman, Ward Parkinson, Daniel R. Shepard, Sam Ira Young 2013-09-17
8441836 Sector array addressing for ECC management Ward Parkinson 2013-05-14
6448628 Chip decoupling capacitor Wen-Foo Chern, Ward Parkinson, Kevin G. Duesman 2002-09-10 $5,003,000
6184568 Integrated circuit module having on-chip surge capacitors Stanley N. Protigal, Wen-Foo Chern, Ward Parkinson, Leland R. Nevill, Gary M. Johnson +1 more 2001-02-06 $20,178,000
6124625 Chip decoupling capacitor Wen-Foo Chern, Ward Parkinson, Kevin G. Duesman 2000-09-26 $18,317,000
5687109 Integrated circuit module having on-chip surge capacitors Stanley N. Protigal, Wen-Foo Chern, Ward Parkinson, Leland R. Nevill, Gary M. Johnson +1 more 1997-11-11 $6,507,000