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Toru Tanzawa — 302 Patents

Micron: 173 patents #53 of 6,374Top 1%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 110 patents #65 of 21,451Top 1%
Intel: 11 patents #3,726 of 30,777Top 15%
LGLodestar Licensing Group: 1 patents #26 of 80Top 35%
Adachi, JP: #1 of 222 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #1,277 of 4,157,543Top 1%
302 Patents All Time
Toru Tanzawa has been granted 302 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in October 2025. Toru Tanzawa ranks #1,277 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.03%). Patent records list Toru Tanzawa in Adachi, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 302 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12444971 Power supply device capable of maintaining, over a long period, the function of increasing the voltage of a power generation element using a secondary battery Hideki Uchida 2025-10-14
12356614 Memory array having connections going through control gates Tamotsu Murakoshi, Deepak Thimmegowda 2025-07-08
12142670 Field effect transistors having a fin 2024-11-12
12073907 Interconnections for 3D memory 2024-08-27 $20,478,000
11978529 Random access-type memory circuit and memory system 2024-05-07
11887675 Random telegraph signal noise reduction scheme for semiconductor memories 2024-01-30
11735264 Drive circuit and electronic device Kazuki Matsuyama 2023-08-22
11710525 Apparatus for establishing a negative body potential in a memory cell Koji Sakui, Mark Hawes, Jeremy Binfet 2023-07-25 $13,773,000
11698725 Apparatuses and methods for concurrently accessing multiple memory planes of a memory during a memory access operation Shantanu R. Rajwade, Pranav Kalavade 2023-07-11 $14,705,000
11658633 Impedance adjustment circuit, power conversion element, and power supply element 2023-05-23
11653497 Semiconductor apparatus with multiple tiers, and methods 2023-05-16 $14,212,000
11600631 Devices including staircase structures, and related memory devices and electronic systems 2023-03-07 $10,226,000
11462629 Field effect transistors having a fin 2022-10-04 $12,913,000
11462277 Random telegraph signal noise reduction scheme for semiconductor memories 2022-10-04 $12,913,000
11417671 Memory device including pass transistors in memory tiers 2022-08-16 $9,745,000
11398489 Memory array having connections going through control gates Tamotsu Murakoshi, Deepak Thimmegowda 2022-07-26 $15,302,000
11347401 Memory device including mixed non-volatile memory cell types 2022-05-31 $17,698,000
11282556 Apparatuses and methods involving accessing distributed sub-blocks of memory cells 2022-03-22 $18,741,000
11276437 Interconnections for 3D memory 2022-03-15 $16,938,000
11258008 Semiconductor device and manufacturing method for same 2022-02-22
11201165 Memory having memory cell string and coupling components 2021-12-14 $22,879,000
11182074 Apparatuses and methods for concurrently accessing multiple memory planes of a memory during a memory access operation Shantanu R. Rajwade, Pranav Kalavade 2021-11-23 $21,765,000
11145673 Semiconductor apparatus with multiple tiers, and methods 2021-10-12 $15,878,000
11018135 Three-dimensional devices having reduced contact length 2021-05-25 $23,972,000
10998054 Random telegraph signal noise reduction scheme for semiconductor memories 2021-05-04 $18,454,000