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William Budge — 21 Patents

Micron: 20 patents #911 of 6,374Top 15%
Homedale, ID: #1 of 7 inventorsTop 15%
Idaho: #679 of 8,810 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
William Budge has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micron. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2009. William Budge ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list William Budge in Homedale, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2007.peak 72002: 1 patents20022003: 3 patents20032006: 5 patents20062007: 7 patents20072009: 5 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7632737 Protection in integrated circuits Neal R. Rueger, Weimin Li 2009-12-15 $5,540,000
7521354 Low k interlevel dielectric layer fabrication methods Weimin Li, Zhiping Yin 2009-04-21 $3,996,000
7501691 Trench insulation structures including an oxide liner and oxidation barrier John Smythe 2009-03-10 $2,830,000
7494894 Protection in integrated circuits Neal R. Rueger, Weimin Li 2009-02-24 $2,406,000
7479440 Method of forming an isolation structure that includes forming a silicon layer at a base of the recess John Smythe 2009-01-20 $3,797,000
7273793 Methods of filling gaps using high density plasma chemical vapor deposition Neal R. Rueger, Weimin Li, Gurtej S. Sandhu 2007-09-25 $1,063,000
7271463 Trench insulation structures including an oxide liner that is thinner along the walls of the trench than along the base John Smythe 2007-09-18 $885,000
7259079 Methods for filling high aspect ratio trenches in semiconductor layers Jingyi Bai, Weimin Li 2007-08-21 $2,251,000
7219114 Fast approximation to the spherical linear interpolation function 2007-05-15
7214979 Selectively deposited silicon oxide layers on a silicon substrate Gurtej S. Sandhu, Christopher W. Hill 2007-05-08 $1,698,000
7202183 Method of filling gaps and methods of depositing materials using high density plasma chemical vapor deposition Neal R. Rueger, Weimin Li, Gurtej S. Sandhu 2007-04-10 $2,167,000
7192893 Use of linear injectors to deposit uniform selective ozone TEOS oxide film by pulsing reactants on and off Gurtej S. Sandhu, Christopher W. Hill 2007-03-20 $2,361,000
7078356 Low K interlevel dielectric layer fabrication methods Weimin Li, Zhiping Yin 2006-07-18 $2,294,000
7067414 Low k interlevel dielectric layer fabrication methods Weimin Li, Zhiping Yin 2006-06-27 $1,742,000
7067415 Low k interlevel dielectric layer fabrication methods Weimin Li, Zhiping Yin 2006-06-27 $1,742,000
7056833 Methods of filling gaps and methods of depositing materials using high density plasma chemical vapor deposition Neal R. Rueger, Weimin Li, Gurtej S. Sandhu 2006-06-06 $2,297,000
6982207 Methods for filling high aspect ratio trenches in semiconductor layers Jingyi Bai, Weimin Li 2006-01-03 $1,955,000
6617230 Use of selective ozone teos oxide to create variable thickness layers and spacers Gurtej S. Sandhu, Christopher W. Hill 2003-09-09 $3,971,000
6602807 Use of linear injectors to deposit uniform selective ozone TEOS oxide film by pulsing reactants on and off Gurtej S. Sandhu, Christopher W. Hill 2003-08-05 $4,531,000
6503851 Use of linear injectors to deposit uniform selective ozone TEOS oxide film by pulsing reactants on and off Gurtej S. Sandhu, Christopher W. Hill 2003-01-07 $2,731,000
6368986 Use of selective ozone TEOS oxide to create variable thickness layers and spacers Gurtej S. Sandhu, Christopher W. Hill 2002-04-09 $7,963,000