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Tom J. John — 19 Patents

Micron: 16 patents #1,064 of 6,374Top 20%
LGLodestar Licensing Group: 1 patents #26 of 80Top 35%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Boise, ID: #517 of 3,546 inventorsTop 15%
Idaho: #745 of 8,810 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Tom J. John has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in September 2025. Tom J. John ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Tom J. John in Boise, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2020.peak 32018: 2 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12406886 Microelectronic devices including slot structures, and related electronic systems and methods of forming the microelectronic devices Chandra S. Tiwari, David A. Kewley, Deep Panjwani, Matthew Holland, Matthew J. King +3 more 2025-09-02
12382633 Microelectronic devices including a selectively removable cap dielectric material, methods of forming the microelectronic devices, and related systems Frank Speetjens, Yucheng Wang, Brendan Flynn, S M Istiaque Hossain, Jeremy Adams 2025-08-05
12250821 Electronic devices including pillars in array regions and non-array regions S M Istiaque Hossain, Christopher J. Larsen, Anilkumar Chandolu, Wesley O. McKinsey, Arun Kumar Dhayalan +1 more 2025-03-11
12063783 Memory arrays and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells Xiaosong Zhang, Yi Hu, Wei Yeeng Ng, Chandra S. Tiwari 2024-08-13
12041775 Electronic devices comprising memory pillars and dummy pillars including an oxide material, and related systems and methods S M Istiaque Hossain, Darwin A. Clampitt, Anilkumar Chandolu, Prakash Rau Mokhna Rau, Christopher J. Larsen +1 more 2024-07-16
11871575 Electronic devices including pillars in array regions and non-array regions S M Istiaque Hossain, Christopher J. Larsen, Anilkumar Chandolu, Wesley O. McKinsey, Arun Kumar Dhayalan +1 more 2024-01-09 $10,439,000
11626423 Memory arrays and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells Xiaosong Zhang, Yi Hu, Wei Yeeng Ng, Chandra S. Tiwari 2023-04-11 $15,540,000
11600494 Arrays of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells and methods used in forming an array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells John D. Hopkins, Gordon A. Haller, Anish A. Khandekar, Christopher J. Larsen, Kunal Shrotri 2023-03-07 $10,226,000
11482536 Electronic devices comprising memory pillars and dummy pillars including an oxide material, and related systems and methods S M Istiaque Hossain, Darwin A. Clampitt, Anilkumar Chandolu, Prakash Rau Mokhna Rau, Christopher J. Larsen +1 more 2022-10-25 $11,361,000
11387245 Electronic devices including pillars in array regions and non-array regions, and related systems and methods S M Istiaque Hossain, Christopher J. Larsen, Anilkumar Chandolu, Wesley O. McKinsey, Arun Kumar Dhayalan +1 more 2022-07-12 $18,742,000
11075219 Memory arrays and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells Xiaosong Zhang, Yi Hu, Wei Yeeng Ng, Chandra S. Tiwari 2021-07-27 $20,745,000
11037797 Arrays of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells and methods used in forming an array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells John D. Hopkins, Gordon A. Haller, Anish A. Khandekar, Christopher J. Larsen, Kunal Shrotri 2021-06-15 $19,940,000
10665469 Arrays of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells and methods used in forming an array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells John D. Hopkins, Gordon A. Haller, Anish A. Khandekar, Christopher J. Larsen, Kunal Shrotri 2020-05-26 $16,522,000
10615174 Elevationally-extending strings of memory cells individually comprising a programmable charge storage transistor and methods of processing silicon nitride-comprising materials Fei Wang, Kunal Shrotri, Anish A. Khandekar, Aaron R. Wilson, John D. Hopkins +1 more 2020-04-07 $18,859,000
10580782 Methods of forming an array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells individually comprising a programmable charge-storage transistor Wei Yeeng Ng, Ian C. Laboriante, Joseph Neil Greeley, Ho Yee Hui 2020-03-03 $19,771,000
10381377 Elevationally-extending strings of memory cells individually comprising a programmable charge storage transistor and methods of processing silicon nitride-comprising materials Fei Wang, Kunal Shrotri, Anish A. Khandekar, Aaron R. Wilson, John D. Hopkins +1 more 2019-08-13 $12,593,000
10304749 Method and apparatus for improved etch stop layer or hard mask layer of a memory device Christopher W. Petz, Philip M. Campbell, Wei Yeeng Ng, Kunal Shrotri, Saurabh Keshav +2 more 2019-05-28 $17,387,000
10121799 Elevationally-extending strings of memory cells individually comprising a programmable charge storage transistor and methods of processing silicon nitride-comprising materials Fei Wang, Kunal Shrotri, Anish A. Khandekar, Aaron R. Wilson, John D. Hopkins +1 more 2018-11-06 $17,900,000
9893083 Elevationally-extending strings of memory cells individually comprising a programmable charge storage transistor and methods of processing silicon nitride-comprising materials Fei Wang, Kunal Shrotri, Anish A. Khandekar, Aaron R. Wilson, John D. Hopkins +1 more 2018-02-13 $26,755,000