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Brian K. Kirkpatrick — 52 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 48 patents #158 of 12,488Top 2%
Applied Materials: 4 patents #2,532 of 7,310Top 35%
Allen, TX: #45 of 1,376 inventorsTop 4%
Texas: #1,624 of 125,132 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Brian K. Kirkpatrick has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in November 2025. Brian K. Kirkpatrick ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Brian K. Kirkpatrick in Allen, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2011.peak 62001: 1 patents20012004: 3 patents2005: 4 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 3 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 6 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 2 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 3 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12480215 Integratead wet clean for bevel treatments Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan 2025-11-25
12051599 Cleaning method with in-line SPM processing Brian J. Brown, Ekaterina A. Mikhaylichenko 2024-07-30 $79,851,000
12027382 Surface cleaning with directed high pressure chemistry Ekaterina A. Mikhaylichenko, Brian J. Brown 2024-07-02 $85,126,000
11942359 Reduced semiconductor wafer bow and warpage Abbas Ali, Christopher Scott Whitesell, Byron Joseph Palla 2024-03-26 $28,354,000
11682567 Cleaning system with in-line SPM processing Brian J. Brown, Ekaterina A. Mikhaylichenko 2023-06-20 $48,645,000
11239346 Split gate memory cell fabrication and system John Howard MacPeak, Douglas Ticknor Grider 2022-02-01 $20,446,000
11205578 Dopant anneal with stabilization step for IC with matched devices Kenneth Palomino, Mahalingam Nandakumar 2021-12-21 $36,896,000
11205575 Method for stripping one or more layers from a semiconductor wafer Byron Joseph Palla, Stephen A. Keller, Brian Edward Hornung, Douglas Ticknor Grider 2021-12-21 $36,896,000
10483261 Integrated circuit having chemically modified spacer surface Amitabh Jain 2019-11-19 $19,310,000
9881795 Method of fabricating semiconductors David Gerald Farber, Ping Jiang, Douglas Ticknor Grider 2018-01-30 $28,447,000
9768078 Inner L-spacer for replacement gate flow Chet V. Lenox, Seung-Chul Song 2017-09-19 $18,310,000
9721847 High-k / metal gate CMOS transistors with TiN gates Hiroaki Niimi 2017-08-01 $11,706,000
9620423 Integrated circuit having chemically modified spacer surface Amitabh Jain 2017-04-11 $14,039,000
9496359 Integrated circuit having chemically modified spacer surface Amitabh Jain 2016-11-15 $11,505,000
9490143 Method of fabricating semiconductors David Gerald Farber, Ping Jiang, Douglas Ticknor Grider 2016-11-08 $12,045,000
9362375 Inner L-spacer for replacement gate flow Chet V. Lenox, Seung-Chul Song 2016-06-07 $15,467,000
9224657 Hard mask for source/drain epitaxy control David Gerald Farber, Tom Lii 2015-12-29 $12,350,000
9178037 Inner L-spacer for replacement gate flow Chet V. Lenox, Seung-Chul Song 2015-11-03 $14,269,000
9087917 Inner L-spacer for replacement gate flow Chet V. Lenox, Seung-Chul Song 2015-07-21 $12,880,000
9070785 High-k / metal gate CMOS transistors with TiN gates Hiroaki Niimi 2015-06-30 $29,632,000
8748996 Semiconductor device including SiON gate dielectric with portions having different nitrogen concentrations James Joseph Chambers, Hiroaki Niimi 2014-06-10 $5,851,000
8748992 MOS transistors including SiON gate dielectric with enhanced nitrogen concentration at its sidewalls James Joseph Chambers 2014-06-10 $5,851,000
8618661 Die having coefficient of thermal expansion graded layer Rajesh Tiwari 2013-12-31 $8,617,000
8450221 Method of forming MOS transistors including SiON gate dielectric with enhanced nitrogen concentration at its sidewalls James Joseph Chambers 2013-05-28 $9,455,000
8441078 Semiconductor device including SiON gate dielectric with portions having different nitrogen concentrations James Joseph Chambers, Hiroaki Niimi 2013-05-14 $11,778,000