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Ken Numata — 22 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 16 patents #836 of 12,488Top 7%
BRBristol-Meyers: 4 patents #74 of 350Top 25%
Bristol-Myers Squibb: 1 patents #2,493 of 3,969Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Ken Numata has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in October 2002. Ken Numata ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Ken Numata in Fuchu, TX, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1996.peak 31987: 1 patents19871989: 1 patents1990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921995: 1 patents1996: 3 patents19961997: 3 patents1998: 3 patents19982000: 2 patents2001: 3 patents20012002: 2 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6472229 Method for manufacturing a ferroelectric capacitor having improved polarization characteristics and a method for manufacturing a ferroelectric memory device incorporating such capacitor Katsuhiro Aoki, Yukio Fukuda 2002-10-29 $36,172,000
6404664 Twisted bit line structure and method for making same 2002-06-11 $30,323,000
6326695 Twisted bit line structures and method for making same 2001-12-04 $47,111,000
6297085 Method for manufacturing ferroelectric capacitor and method for manufacturing ferroelectric memory Katsuhiro Aoki, Yukio Fukuda, Ikuko Murayama, Akitoshi Nishimura 2001-10-02 $60,963,000
6251749 Shallow trench isolation formation with sidewall spacer Shigeru Kuroda, Yasutoshi Okuno 2001-06-26 $49,672,000
6150183 Method for manufacturing metal oxide capacitor and method for manufacturing semiconductor memory device Yukio Fukuda, Katsuhiro Aoki, Akitoshi Nishimura 2000-11-21 $46,006,000
6033953 Method for manufacturing dielectric capacitor, dielectric memory device Katsuhiro Aoki, Yukio Fukuda, Yasutoshi Okuno, Akitoshi Nishimura 2000-03-07 $113,788,000
5811352 Method of making reliable metal leads in high speed LSI semiconductors using dummy leads Kay L. Houston 1998-09-22 $20,834,000
5793600 Method for forming high dielectric capacitor electrode structure and semiconductor memory devices Yukio Fukuda, Katsuhiro Aoki, Akitoshi Nishimura 1998-08-11 $12,083,000
5751056 Reliable metal leads in high speed LSI semiconductors using dummy leads 1998-05-12 $14,919,000
5675187 Reliability of metal leads in high speed LSI semiconductors using dummy vias Kay L. Houston 1997-10-07 $21,710,000
5654567 Capacitor, electrode or wiring structure, and semi conductor device Katsuhiro Aoki, Yukio Fukuda, Akitoshi Nishimura 1997-08-05 $20,426,000
5625232 Reliability of metal leads in high speed LSI semiconductors using dummy vias Kay L. Houston 1997-04-29 $13,399,000
5519250 Reliability of metal leads in high speed LSI semiconductors using both dummy leads and thermoconductive layers 1996-05-21
5510293 Method of making reliable metal leads in high speed LSI semiconductors using thermoconductive layers 1996-04-23 $10,771,000
5508953 Capacitor, electrode structure, and semiconductor memory device Yukio Fukuda, Katsuhiro Aoki, Akitoshi Nishimura 1996-04-16 $7,066,000
5476817 Method of making reliable metal leads in high speed LSI semiconductors using both dummy leads and thermoconductive layers 1995-12-19 $14,778,000
5079148 Peptide antibiotics Masataka Konishi, Koji Tomita, Masahisa Oka 1992-01-07 $59,708,000
5025023 Peptide antibiotics Masataka Konishi, Koji Tomita, Masahisa Oka 1991-06-18 $26,977,000
4898940 Peptide antibiotics Masataka Konishi, Koji Tomita, Masahisa Oka 1990-02-06 $22,860,000
4833076 Peptide antibiotics Masataka Konishi, Koji Tomita, Masahisa Oka 1989-05-23 $14,772,000
4692510 Peptide antibiotics Masataka Konishi, Koji Tomita, Masahisa Oka 1987-09-08 $10,610,000