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Hiroki Yabe — 39 Patents

STSandisk Technologies: 23 patents #160 of 2,224Top 8%
Panasonic: 9 patents #2,948 of 21,108Top 15%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 4 patents #6,367 of 21,551Top 30%
HTHitachi Telecom Technologies: 2 patents #26 of 71Top 40%
TTThe University Of Tokyo: 1 patents #1,000 of 2,633Top 40%
IVImec Vzw: 1 patents #463 of 1,046Top 45%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 1 patents #1,874 of 3,180Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Hiroki Yabe has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sandisk Technologies. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in June 2025. Hiroki Yabe ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Hiroki Yabe in Yokohama, CA, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12322452 Three-dimensional memory device including a bit-line-bias vertical transistor block and methods of operating the same Naoto Norizuki 2025-06-03
12260921 Sense amplifier architecture providing reduced program verification time 2025-03-25
12040010 IR drop compensation for sensing memory 2024-07-16
11972807 Charge pump current regulation during voltage ramp 2024-04-30
11869600 Memory cell sensing by charge sharing between sensing nodes Jiawei Xu, Anirudh Amarnath 2024-01-09
11777143 Solid electrolyte, electrode, power storage device, and method for producing solid electrolytes Xubin Chen, Knut Bjarne Gandrud, Maarten Mees, Philippe M. Vereecken, AKIHIKO SAGARA +1 more 2023-10-03
11610625 Hetero-plane data storage structures for non-volatile memory 2023-03-21
11573914 Nonconsecutive mapping scheme for data path circuitry in a storage device Masahito Takehara 2023-02-07
11488669 Three-valued programming mechanism for non-volatile memory structures Keiji Nose, Masahiro Kano, Yuki Fujita 2022-11-01
11405039 Level shifter with improved negative voltage capability 2022-08-02
11348649 Threshold voltage setting with boosting read scheme Kiyohiko Sakakibara, Ken Oowada, Masaaki Higashitani 2022-05-31
11336283 Level shifter with improved negative voltage capability 2022-05-17
11250920 Loop-dependent switching between program-verify techniques 2022-02-15
11177277 Word line architecture for three dimensional NAND flash memory Naoki Ookuma, Koichiro Hayashi, Takuya Ariki, Toru Miwa 2021-11-16
11158384 Apparatus and methods for configurable bit line isolation in non-volatile memory 2021-10-26
11087800 Sense amplifier architecture providing small swing voltage sensing 2021-08-10
11081167 Sense amplifier architecture for low supply voltage operations Koichiro Hayashi 2021-08-03
11081192 Memory plane structure for ultra-low read latency applications in non-volatile memories Koichiro Hayashi, Takuya Ariki, Yuki Fujita, Naoki Ookuma, Kazuki Yamauchi +2 more 2021-08-03
11004518 Threshold voltage setting with boosting read scheme Kiyohiko Sakakibara, Ken Oowada, Masaaki Higashitani 2021-05-11
10984874 Differential dbus scheme for low-latency random read for NAND memories Koichiro Hayashi, Takuya Ariki, Naoki Ookuma, Toru Miwa 2021-04-20
10984877 Multi BLCS for multi-state verify and multi-level QPW Jongyeon Kim, Kou Tei, Chia-Kai Chou, Ohwon Kwon 2021-04-20
10964390 Skip coding for fractional bit-per-cell NAND memories 2021-03-30 $27,477,000
10910044 State coding for fractional bits-per-cell memory Masahiro Kano 2021-02-02
10885984 Area effective erase voltage isolation in NAND memory Koichiro Hayashi, Takuya Ariki, Yuki Fujita, Naoki Ookuma, Kazuki Yamauchi +2 more 2021-01-05
10643677 Negative kick on bit line control transistors for faster bit line settling during sensing 2020-05-05