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William A. Melton — 20 Patents

Micron: 20 patents #901 of 6,374Top 15%
Shingle Springs, CA: #7 of 86 inventorsTop 9%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
William A. Melton has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in July 2025. William A. Melton ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list William A. Melton in Shingle Springs, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12374408 Multi-state programming of memory cells Jeremy M. Hirst, Shanky Kumar Jain, Hernan A. Castro, Richard K. Dodge 2025-07-29
12056599 Methods of performing processing-in-memory operations, and related devices and systems Dmitri Yudanov, Sean S. Eilert, Hernan A. Castro 2024-08-06 $38,187,000
12026051 Adaptive parity techniques for a memory device Justin Eno, Sean S. Eilert 2024-07-02 $50,597,000
11989228 Multi-state programming of memory cells Jeremy M. Hirst, Shanky Kumar Jain, Hernan A. Castro, Richard K. Dodge 2024-05-21 $36,516,000
11869588 Three-state programming of memory cells Hernan A. Castro, Jeremy M. Hirst, Shanky Kumar Jain, Richard K. Dodge 2024-01-09 $10,439,000
11803442 Error caching techniques for improved error correction in a memory device Sean S. Eilert, Justin Eno 2023-10-31 $23,242,000
11537861 Methods of performing processing-in-memory operations, and related devices and systems Dmitri Yudanov, Sean S. Eilert, Hernan A. Castro 2022-12-27 $11,504,000
11461170 Error caching techniques for improved error correction in a memory device Sean S. Eilert, Justin Eno 2022-10-04 $12,913,000
11385961 Adaptive parity techniques for a memory device Justin Eno, Sean S. Eilert 2022-07-12 $18,742,000
11315633 Three-state programming of memory cells Hernan A. Castro, Jeremy M. Hirst, Shanky Kumar Jain, Richard K. Dodge 2022-04-26 $23,195,000
11177009 Multi-state programming of memory cells Jeremy M. Hirst, Shanky Kumar Jain, Hernan A. Castro, Richard K. Dodge 2021-11-16 $19,987,000
10930324 Self-referencing sensing schemes with coupling capacitance Mahdi Jamali, Daniele Vimercati, Xinwei Guo, Yasuko Hattori 2021-02-23 $23,020,000
10692547 Self-referencing sensing schemes with coupling capacitance Mahdi Jamali, Daniele Vimercati, Xinwei Guo, Yasuko Hattori 2020-06-23 $14,650,000
10573355 Self-referencing sensing schemes with coupling capacitance Mahdi Jamali, Daniele Vimercati, Xinwei Guo, Yasuko Hattori 2020-02-25 $17,014,000
10395697 Self-referencing sensing schemes with coupling capacitance Mahdi Jamali, Daniele Vimercati, Xinwei Guo, Yasuko Hattori 2019-08-27 $14,447,000
9454427 Shifting read data Aswin Thiruvengadam, Angelo Visconti, Mauro Bonanomi, Richard E. Fackenthal 2016-09-27 $14,567,000
9176831 Rearranging programming data to avoid hard errors Aswin Thiruvengadam, Angelo Visconti, Mauro Bonanomi, Richard E. Fackenthal 2015-11-03 $7,896,000
9082477 Set pulse for phase change memory programming Aswin Thiruvengadam, Rich Fackenthal, Andrew Oen 2015-07-14 $8,120,000
8977929 Rearranging write data to avoid hard errors Aswin Thiruvengadam, Angelo Visconti, Mauro Bonanomi, Richard E. Fackenthal 2015-03-10 $15,588,000
8441848 Set pulse for phase change memory programming Aswin Thiruvengadam, Rich Fackenthal, Andrew Oen 2013-05-14 $3,687,000