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Nathan Franklin — 37 Patents

STSandisk Technologies: 18 patents #207 of 2,224Top 10%
Intel: 13 patents #3,167 of 30,777Top 15%
Stanford University: 3 patents #905 of 5,197Top 20%
PIPrintpack Illinois: 2 patents #26 of 79Top 35%
San Jose, CA: #1,557 of 32,062 inventorsTop 5%
California: #12,909 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Nathan Franklin has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sandisk Technologies. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in November 2025. Nathan Franklin ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Nathan Franklin in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12475964 Bypass buffer for worn out codewords Lunkai Zhang, Raj K. Ramanujan, Martin Lueker-Boden 2025-11-18
12376498 SOT MRAM including MTJ and selector located on opposite sides of SOT layer and method of making the same Jeffrey S. Lille 2025-07-29
12300296 Cross-point array refresh scheme Michael Nicolas Albert Tran, Michael Grobis, Ward Parkinson 2025-05-13
12237010 Concurrent multi-bit self-referenced read of programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point array Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis, James E. O'Toole 2025-02-25
12205638 Concurrent write to programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point array Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis, James E. O'Toole 2025-01-21
12148459 Cross-point array IHOLD read margin improvement Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Thomas Trent, Michael Grobis, James W. Reiner +2 more 2024-11-19
11978491 Mixed current-forced read scheme for MRAM array with selector Michael Nicolas Albert Tran, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis, Raj K. Ramanujan 2024-05-07
11972822 Programmable ECC for MRAM mixed-read scheme Martin Hassner, Michael Nicolas Albert Tran, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis, Raj K. Ramanujan 2024-04-30
11972787 Cross-point array refresh scheme Michael Nicolas Albert Tran, Michael Grobis, Ward Parkinson 2024-04-30
11854592 Signal amplification in MRAM during reading, including a pair of complementary transistors connected to an array line Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Thomas Trent 2023-12-26
11688446 Forced current access with voltage clamping in cross-point array Michael Nicolas Albert Tran, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis 2023-06-27
11682442 Forced current access with voltage clamping in cross-point array Michael Nicolas Albert Tran, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis 2023-06-20
11488662 Concurrent multi-bit access in cross-point array Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis, James E. O'Toole 2022-11-01
11398262 Forced current access with voltage clamping in cross-point array Michael Nicolas Albert Tran, Ward Parkinson, Michael Grobis 2022-07-26
11386945 Signal amplification in MRAM during reading, including a pair of complementary transistors connected to an array line Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Thomas Trent 2022-07-12
11328759 Signal preserve in MRAM during reading Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Thomas Trent 2022-05-10
11222678 MRAM cross-point memory with reversed MRAM element vertical orientation Ward Parkinson, James E. O'Toole, Thomas Trent 2022-01-11
10885991 Data rewrite during refresh window Ward Parkinson, Martin Hassner, Christopher J. Petti 2021-01-05
10545692 Memory maintenance operations during refresh window Ward Parkinson 2020-01-28
9754683 Method and system to obtain state confidence data using multistrobe read of a non-volatile memory Matthew Goldman, Krishna K. Parat, Pranav Kalavade, Mark A. Helm 2017-09-05 $9,844,000
9530523 Thermal disturb as heater in cross-point memory Gayathri Rao Subbu, Kiran Pangal 2016-12-27 $11,980,000
9502108 Programming memory cells using a program pulse Kiran Pangal 2016-11-22 $9,157,000
9286975 Mitigating read disturb in a cross-point memory Daniel Chu, Kiran Pangal, Prashant S. Damle, Hu Chaohong 2016-03-15 $12,478,000
9224465 Cross-point memory bias scheme Sandeep Guliani, Mase J. Taub, Kiran Pangal 2015-12-29 $8,962,000
9153320 Programming memory cells using a program pulse Kiran Pangal 2015-10-06 $14,030,000