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Michael VanBuskirk — 29 Patents

SLSpansion Llc.: 19 patents #24 of 769Top 4%
AMD: 8 patents #1,513 of 9,280Top 20%
Cypress Semiconductor: 2 patents #791 of 1,866Top 45%
Fujitsu Limited: 1 patents #14,843 of 24,456Top 65%
Saratoga, CA: #337 of 2,933 inventorsTop 15%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Michael VanBuskirk has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Spansion Llc.. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in May 2016. Michael VanBuskirk ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Michael VanBuskirk in Saratoga, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2005.peak 52000: 1 patents20002003: 1 patents2005: 5 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 4 patents2011: 3 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 2 patents20132016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9343666 Damascene metal-insulator-metal (MIM) device with improved scaleability Suzette K. Pangrle, Steven C. Avanzino, Sameer Haddad, Manuj Rathor, James J. Xie +5 more 2016-05-17 $12,063,000
9318373 Method and apparatus for protection against process-induced charging David Michael Rogers, Mimi Qian, Kwadwo Appiah, Mark Randolph, Tazrien Kamal +3 more 2016-04-19 $2,645,000
8514631 Determining a logic state based on currents received by a sense amplifer Bruce L. Morton 2013-08-20 $4,264,000
8445966 Method and apparatus for protection against process-induced charging David Michael Rogers, Mimi Qian, Kwadwo Appiah, Mark Randolph, Tazrien Kamal +3 more 2013-05-21 $1,207,000
8232175 Damascene metal-insulator-metal (MIM) device with improved scaleability Suzette K. Pangrle, Steven C. Avanzino, Sameer Haddad, Manuj Rathor, James J. Xie +5 more 2012-07-31 $2,423,000
8098521 Method of providing an erase activation energy of a memory device Colin S. Bill, Zhida Lan, Tzu-Ning Fang 2012-01-17 $1,689,000
8089113 Damascene metal-insulator-metal (MIM) device Suzette K. Pangrle, Steven C. Avanzino, Sameer Haddad, Manuj Rathor, James J. Xie +5 more 2012-01-03 $2,103,000
8003436 Stacked organic memory devices and methods of operating and fabricating Nicholas H. Tripsas, Uzodinma Okoroanyanwu, Suzette K. Pangrle 2011-08-23 $939,000
7983089 Sense amplifier with capacitance-coupled differential sense amplifier Bruce L. Morton 2011-07-19 $1,286,000
7894243 Methods of programming and erasing resistive memory devices Wei Daisy Cai, Colin S. Bill, Yi-Ching Wu 2011-02-22 $1,504,000
7838342 Memory device and method Bruce L. Morton 2010-11-23 $2,489,000
7830716 Non-volatile memory string module with buffer and method Bruce L. Morton 2010-11-09 $3,260,000
7791947 Non-volatile memory device and methods of using Colin S. Bill, Takao Akaogi 2010-09-07 $1,192,000
7781806 Optical erase memory structure Mark Alan McClain 2010-08-24 $3,408,000
7564708 Method of programming memory device Tzu-Ning Fang, Swaroop Kaza 2009-07-21
7499309 Using organic semiconductor memory in conjunction with a MEMS actuator for an ultra high density memory Colin S. Bill, Tzu-Ning Fang 2009-03-03 $54,000
7465956 Stacked organic memory devices and methods of operating and fabricating Nicholas H. Tripsas, Uzodinma Okoroanyanwu, Suzette K. Pangrle 2008-12-16 $5,569,000
7443712 Memory erase management system Colin S. Bill, Mark Alan McClain 2008-10-28 $449,000
7443732 High performance flash memory device capable of high density data storage Tiao-Hua Kuo, Nancy Leong, Nian Yang, Guowei Wang, Aaron Lee +4 more 2008-10-28 $449,000
7355886 Method of programming, erasing and reading memory cells in a resistive memory array Wei Daisy Cai, Swaroop Kaza, Colin S. Bill 2008-04-08 $3,403,000
7199394 Polymer memory device with variable period of retention time Aaron Mandell, Stuart Spitzer, Juri Krieger 2007-04-03 $7,538,000
7035141 Diode array architecture for addressing nanoscale resistive memory arrays Nicholas H. Tripsas, Colin S. Bill, Matthew S. Buynoski, Tzu-Ning Fang, Wei Daisy Cai +2 more 2006-04-25 $16,817,000
6979837 Stacked organic memory devices and methods of operating and fabricating Nicholas H. Tripsas, Uzodinma Okoroanyanwu, Suzette K. Pangrle 2005-12-27 $8,074,000
6960783 Erasing and programming an organic memory device and method of fabricating Zhida Lan, Colin S. Bill 2005-11-01 $12,702,000
6943370 Control of memory arrays utilizing zener diode-like devices Colin S. Bill, Tzu-Ning Fang, Zhida Lan 2005-09-13 $9,865,000