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William Kaufmann — 4 Patents

CICiena: 2 patents #497 of 1,406Top 40%
TOTellabs Operations: 1 patents #141 of 307Top 50%
TITeledyne Industries: 1 patents #241 of 517Top 50%
Chicago, IL: #3,117 of 13,327 inventorsTop 25%
Illinois: #21,640 of 84,256 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
William Kaufmann has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in April 2025. William Kaufmann ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list William Kaufmann in Chicago, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1985.peak 11985: 1 patents19852014: 1 patents20142021: 1 patents20212025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12289343 Detecting malicious threats in a 5G network slice Petar Djukic, David Jordan Krauss, James P'ford't Carnes, III, Balaji Subramaniam 2025-04-29
11057278 Discovery of port-to-port connectivity across network layers using machine learning David Côté, Minming Ni, Phillip Doelling, Mark Gibson, Cengiz Alaettinoglu 2021-07-06 $14,022,000
8897145 Method and apparatus for network OAM interworking Douglas J. Hawn, Chirayu Shah, Bruce M. Lasley, Ian Butler, Jason T. Ledgerwood Jesseph 2014-11-25
4540870 Machine for electric arc welding and air carbon arc gouging on vertical curved or straight walls 1985-09-10