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Alan Yee — 7 Patents

Cisco: 6 patents #2,380 of 13,007Top 20%
Los Gatos, CA: #977 of 2,986 inventorsTop 35%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Alan Yee has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in October 2025. Alan Yee ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Alan Yee in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2008.peak 12008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents20112016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12455933 Social media platform with recommendation engine refresh Jonathan W. Furlong, Harry S. Cheng, Ciaran Farley, Isha Shah, Riley Gish +5 more 2025-10-28
10200245 Adjustable data rates William Frank Edwards, Keith Frank Tharp, Ken Naumann, Amrik S. Bains, Clark Carty +2 more 2019-02-05 $59,270,000
9577887 ICM foot-print with UPOE support William Frank Edwards, Keith Frank Tharp, Ken Naumann, Amrik S. Bains, Clark Carty +2 more 2017-02-21 $23,445,000
9294355 Adjustable data rates William Frank Edwards, Keith Frank Tharp, Ken Naumann, Amrik S. Bains, Clark Carty +2 more 2016-03-22 $28,703,000
7971080 Power savings for a network device 2011-06-28 $22,891,000
7620754 Carrier card converter for 10 gigabit ethernet slots Eric Wiles, James Paul Rivers, Sandeep Arvind Patel, William Frank Edwards, Jeffrey D. Provost 2009-11-17 $38,543,000
7433193 Techniques for controlling a position of a transceiver module relative to a connector Eric Wiles, Samir Vasavda 2008-10-07 $19,989,000