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Wayne Kinney — 117 Patents

Micron: 53 patents #340 of 6,374Top 6%
USUnity Semiconductor: 50 patents #5 of 55Top 10%
HLHefei Reliance Memory Limited: 7 patents #7 of 28Top 25%
IBM: 3 patents #26,335 of 70,183Top 40%
NSNational Semiconductor: 2 patents #867 of 2,238Top 40%
Emmett, ID: #1 of 36 inventorsTop 3%
Idaho: #86 of 8,810 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #10,533 of 4,157,543Top 1%
117 Patents All Time
Wayne Kinney has been granted 117 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in February 2025. Wayne Kinney ranks #10,533 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.25%). Patent records list Wayne Kinney in Emmett, ID, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 117 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12223994 Memory arrays, ferroelectric transistors, and methods of reading and writing relative to memory cells of memory arrays Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy 2025-02-11
12080329 Ferroelectric devices and ferroelectric memory cells Albert Liao, Yi Fang Lee, Manzar Siddik 2024-09-03 $19,072,000
12057472 Devices comprising crystalline materials Michael Mutch, Manuj Nahar 2024-08-06 $38,187,000
12048167 Electronic devices including a seed region and magnetic regions Witold Kula, Gurtej S. Sandhu 2024-07-23 $34,395,000
11955156 Memory arrays, ferroelectric transistors, and methods of reading and writing relative to memory cells of memory arrays Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy 2024-04-09 $33,276,000
11672189 Two-terminal reversibly switchable memory device Darrell Rinerson, Christophe J. Chevallier, Roy Lambertson, John Sanchez, Lawrence Schloss +2 more 2023-06-06
11594611 Transistors, memory cells and semiconductor constructions Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Kirk D. Prall 2023-02-28 $15,268,000
11532699 Devices comprising crystalline materials and related systems Michael Mutch, Manuj Nahar 2022-12-20 $19,538,000
11515331 Integrated assemblies comprising ferroelectric transistors and non-ferroelectric transistors 2022-11-29 $10,551,000
11502249 Memory element with a reactive metal layer Christophe J. Chevallier, Steve Kuo-Ren Hsia, Steven W. Longcor, Darrell Rinerson, John Sanchez +2 more 2022-11-15
11398263 Semiconductor structures, memory cells and devices comprising ferroelectric materials, systems including same, and related methods Albert Liao, Yi Fang Lee, Manzar Siddik 2022-07-26 $15,302,000
11393872 Electronic devices with seed and magnetic regions and methods of fabrication Witold Kula, Gurtej S. Sandhu 2022-07-19 $10,980,000
11276449 Memory arrays, ferroelectric transistors, and methods of reading and writing relative to memory cells of memory arrays Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy 2022-03-15 $16,938,000
11158670 Magnetic structures, semiconductor structures, and semiconductor devices Witold Kula, Stephen J. Kramer 2021-10-26 $16,064,000
11063214 Two-terminal reversibly switchable memory device Darrell Rinerson, Christophe J. Chevallier, Roy Lambertson, John Sanchez, Lawrence Schloss +2 more 2021-07-13
11037942 Memory cell and an array of memory cells Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Marco-Domenico Tiburzi 2021-06-15 $19,940,000
10943986 Transistors, memory cells and semiconductor constructions comprising ferroelectric gate dielectric Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Kirk D. Prall 2021-03-09 $21,153,000
10833125 Memory element with a reactive metal layer Christophe J. Chevallier, Steve Kuo-Ren Hsia, Steven W. Longcor, Darrell Rinerson, John Sanchez +2 more 2020-11-10
10803935 Conductive metal oxide structures in non-volatile re-writable memory devices Lawrence Schloss, Julie Casperson Brewer, Rene Meyer 2020-10-13
10790304 Integrated assemblies comprising ferroelectric transistors and non-ferroelectric transistors 2020-09-29 $16,991,000
10748594 Enabling fast pulse operation Gurtej S. Sandhu 2020-08-18 $12,880,000
10726899 Semiconductor structures, memory cells and devices comprising ferroelectric materials, systems including same, and related methods Albert Liao, Yi Fang Lee, Manzar Siddik 2020-07-28 $14,436,000
10707298 Methods of forming semiconductor structures Michael Mutch, Manuj Nahar 2020-07-07 $18,795,000
10680171 Two-terminal reversibly switchable memory device Darrell Rinerson, Christophe J. Chevallier, Roy Lambertson, John Sanchez, Lawrence Schloss +2 more 2020-06-09
10636471 Memory arrays, ferroelectric transistors, and methods of reading and writing relative to memory cells of memory arrays Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy 2020-04-28 $22,554,000