Shane C. Hollmer

Profile: Shane C. Hollmer (individual inventor — not a corporate entity)

"Shane C. Hollmer" is not a company. The tracked records identify a natural person, Shane Charles Hollmer, a semiconductor engineer and named inventor. There is therefore no headquarters, revenue band, employee count, ticker, or parent-company ownership to report. Public profiles (MarketScreener, SemiEngineering) list him as co-founder of Adesto Technologies Corp., a non-volatile memory company founded in 2006/2007 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, where he served as Vice President of Engineering until about mid-2020. Adesto's own patent records and IEEE papers (e.g., IMW 2011) list him as an inventor at Adesto. Adesto went public on Nasdaq (IOTS) in 2015 and was acquired by Dialog Semiconductor in 2020; Dialog was subsequently absorbed into Renesas. He was previously a principal at Advanced Micro Devices, Silicon Storage Technology, Monolithic Power Systems, and Emosyn.

Products / operations. Hollmer is an inventor, not an operating business. His patent portfolio spans NOR/NAND flash EEPROM design — high-voltage pass gates, charge pumps, level shifters, page erase/erase-verify schemes, and reference-cell sensing — from his AMD years, plus resistive-memory (CBRAM / programmable metallization cell) circuits and embedded NVM macros developed at Adesto. Roughly 90+ issued U.S. patents name him (patent leaderboards list him #1 among Adesto inventors).

Patent-litigation posture. The three tracked matters are not infringement suits and do not reflect NPE or PAE activity. They are a patent interference and its two appeals arising from Patent Interference No. 105,686(JL) (later renumbered) before the BPAI, pitting Hollmer and Lee E. Cleveland (senior party, U.S. Patent 5,828,601, "Programmed Reference," assigned to Advanced Micro Devices) against Eliyahou Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra (SanDisk founders) on pending application 09/310,880. Hollmer appears as defendant/appellee in two matters and plaintiff/appellant in one — consistent with a two-way priority dispute, not a monetization campaign. No district-court or Eastern District of Texas filings appear.

Notable cases. Harari v. Hollmer, 602 F.3d 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2010) ("Harari I") reversed the Board's dismissal of Harari and set the "reasonable examiner" standard for incorporation-by-reference language. On the second appeal, Hollmer v. Harari, 681 F.3d 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2012), the court held the person-of-ordinary-skill standard governs §120 continuity, reversed the Board, and fixed the '880 application's effective filing date at December 20, 1996. Both decisions remain frequently cited in priority-chain and incorporation-by-reference disputes. No merits of any case are assessed here.