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Aaron Lee — 42 Patents

STSandisk Technologies: 19 patents #237 of 2,594Top 10%
SLSpansion Llc.: 11 patents #78 of 769Top 15%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 3 patents #1,011 of 3,180Top 35%
Micron: 3 patents #3,511 of 6,374Top 60%
UMUnited Microelectronics: 2 patents #1,942 of 4,560Top 45%
Sunnyvale, CA: #457 of 14,302 inventorsTop 4%
California: #10,667 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Aaron Lee has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sandisk Technologies. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in December 2025. Aaron Lee ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Aaron Lee in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2017.peak 61986: 1 patents19861998: 1 patents1999: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 6 patents2018: 4 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12488828 Efficient periodic backend refresh reads for reducing bit error rate in memory devices Tingjun Xie, Yaochao Liu, Juan-Jung Li, Jingde Zhu 2025-12-02
12431215 Dynamic read calibration Li-Te Chang, Zhenming Zhou, Murong Lang 2025-09-30
12333154 Reducing bit error rate in memory devices Tingjun Xie, Yang Liu, Jiangli Zhu, Juane Li 2025-06-17
11966621 Non-volatile storage system with program execution decoupled from dataload Hua-Ling Cynthia Hsu 2024-04-23
11342028 Concurrent programming of multiple cells for non-volatile memory devices Xiang Yang, Gerrit Jan Hemink, Ken Oowada, Toru Miwa 2022-05-24
11004535 Robust storage of bad column data and parity bits on word line Hua-Ling Cynthia Hsu, YenLung Li 2021-05-11
10978156 Concurrent programming of multiple cells for non-volatile memory devices Xiang Yang, Gerrit Jan Hemink, Ken Oowada, Toru Miwa 2021-04-13
10832789 System countermeasure for read operation during TLC program suspend causing ADL data reset with XDL data Mahim Raj Gupta, Rohan Dhekane 2020-11-10 $13,760,000
10770158 Detecting a faulty memory block Mahim Raj Gupta, Rohit Sehgal, Rohan Dhekane, Niles Yang 2020-09-08 $32,536,000
10373696 Methods and operations using XNOR functions with flash devices and solid state drives Gautam Dusija, Mrinal Kochar, Deepak Raghu 2019-08-06 $6,822,000
10014056 Changing storage parameters Yi-Chieh Chen, Anne Pao-Ling Koh, Gulzar Kathawala, Mrinal Kochar 2018-07-03
9983920 System, method and apparatus for preventing data loss due to memory defects using latches Abhijeet Bhalerao, Mrinal Kochar 2018-05-29
9899077 Write abort detection for multi-state memories Cynthia Hsu, Abhijeet Manohar, Deepanshu Dutta 2018-02-20
9858009 Data folding in 3D nonvolatile memory Abhijeet Bhalerao, Mrinal Kochar, Dennis S. Ea, Mikhail Palityka, Yew Yin Ng +1 more 2018-01-02
9792175 Bad column management in nonvolatile memory Sahil Sharma, Abhijeet Manohar, Mrinal Kochar, Yong Huang, Derek McAuley +2 more 2017-10-17
9760303 Partially-bad block operation in 3-D nonvolatile memory Dennis S. Ea, Ivan Baran, Mrinal Kochar, Mikhail Palityka, Yew Yin Ng +1 more 2017-09-12
9728262 Non-volatile memory systems with multi-write direction memory units Ivan Baran, Mrinal Kochar, Mikhail Palityka, Dennis S. Ea, Yew Yin Ng +1 more 2017-08-08
9653154 Write abort detection for multi-state memories Cynthia Hsu, Abhijeet Manohar, Deepanshu Dutta 2017-05-16
9582435 Memory system and method for efficient padding of memory pages Vimal Kumar Jain, Abhijeet Manohar, Anne Pao-Ling Koh 2017-02-28
9548105 Enhanced post-write read for 3-D memory Mrinal Kochar, Yew Yin Ng 2017-01-17
9530517 Read disturb detection in open blocks Zhenming Zhou, Mrinal Kochar, Cynthia Hsu 2016-12-27
9501400 Identification and operation of sub-prime blocks in nonvolatile memory Chun Sum Yeung, Jian Chen, Abhijeet Manohar, Chris Avila, Dana Lee +1 more 2016-11-22
9460780 Initialization techniques for multi-level memory cells using multi-pass programming Mrinal Kochar, Abhijeet Bhalerao, Mikhail Palityka 2016-10-04
9372629 System, method and apparatus for preventing data loss due to memory defects using latches Abhijeet Bhalerao, Mrinal Kochar 2016-06-21
9342401 Selective in-situ retouching of data in nonvolatile memory Nian Niles Yang, Chris Avila, Steven T. Sprouse 2016-05-17