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Alec Hothan — 4 Patents

Cisco: 4 patents #3,400 of 13,007Top 30%
Sacramento, CA: #294 of 1,687 inventorsTop 20%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Alec Hothan has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in November 2024. Alec Hothan ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Alec Hothan in Sacramento, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2008.peak 12008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12153945 Centralized management, provisioning and monitoring of cloud infrastructure Chandragupta Ganguly, Om Prakash Suthar, Vivek Agarwal, John W. Wu, Ajay Kalambur +1 more 2024-11-26 $66,950,000
7969998 Method and system for tunneling data using a management protocol Krishna Kanakasapapathi, Lee Shombert, Stephen Daniel James, Thomas Hoffman, Jin Huai 2011-06-28 $22,891,000
7747727 Method and apparatus for automatically establishing bi-directional line-switched rings in telecommunication networks David A. Friedman, John Lynde, David E. La Motta, Cristopher M. Shupp, Chris Eich +1 more 2010-06-29 $23,802,000
7363362 Method and apparatus for automatically establishing bi-directional line-switched rings in telecommunication networks David A. Friedman, John Lynde, David E. La Motta, Cristopher M. Shupp, Chris Eich +1 more 2008-04-22 $50,196,000