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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Allan Thomson — 77 Patents

Cisco: 36 patents #264 of 13,007Top 3%
ASAktiebolaget Skf: 24 patents #24 of 1,598Top 2%
ASAvast Software S.R.O.: 3 patents #11 of 128Top 9%
BNBay Networks, Nc.: 3 patents #16 of 115Top 15%
TTTayside Flow Technologies: 2 patents #8 of 9Top 90%
Nortel Networks Limited: 1 patents #2,518 of 5,294Top 50%
4S4Front Engineered Solutions: 1 patents #11 of 25Top 45%
TNTrapeze Networks: 1 patents #19 of 35Top 55%
Pleasanton, CA: #44 of 3,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,703 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #24,274 of 4,157,543Top 1%
77 Patents All Time
Allan Thomson has been granted 77 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in November 2025. Allan Thomson ranks #24,274 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.58%). Patent records list Allan Thomson in Pleasanton, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2010.peak 91987: 1 patents19871988: 1 patents1997: 1 patents1998: 2 patents19982001: 1 patents2004: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents2010: 9 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 4 patents2013: 3 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 1 patents2017: 6 patents20172018: 6 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 9 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 77 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12483422 Systems and methods for credential-based transactions over a network 2025-11-25
12438730 Systems and methods for reputation-based transactions over a network Drummond Reed, Jared A. Smith 2025-10-07
12413607 User and group specific threat protection system and method 2025-09-09
11949693 User and group specific threat protection system and method 2024-04-02
11906390 System and method for bearing defect auto-detection Lukas Koeping 2024-02-20
11895090 Privacy preserving malicious network activity detection and mitigation 2024-02-06
11754454 Piezoelectric strain sensor unit for a rolling bearing Andrew Campbell, Hans Soetens 2023-09-12
11644373 Piezoelectric strain sensor unit for a rolling bearing Andrew Campbell, Hans Soetens 2023-05-09
11579044 System and method for bearing defect auto-detection Lukas Koeping, Maksym Boreiko 2023-02-14
11397131 Bearing defect auto-detection by swept pattern followed by post-sweep logic filter 2022-07-26
10914656 Condition monitoring Verena Slawik 2021-02-09
10788395 Method and device of processing of vibration sensor signals Julian Franchitti 2020-09-29
10788382 Method and data processing device for detecting a load distribution in a roller bearing 2020-09-29
10750443 Automating radio enablement to facilitate power saving Esteban Raul Torres 2020-08-18 $53,681,000
10724995 Viscosity estimation from demodulated acoustic emission 2020-07-28
10677685 Method, computer program product and system 2020-06-09
10598634 Couplant and arrangement of couplant, transducer, and construction component Sebastian Ziegler, Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith +2 more 2020-03-24
10564069 Method and data processing device for determining a spacing of rolling elements 2020-02-18
10539179 Sensor device with mounting element Andrew Campbell 2020-01-21
10539477 Condition monitoring Joseph Erskine, Andrew Campbell 2020-01-21
10324003 Detection of fretting and/or smearing with false-brinelling potential Joseph Erskine, Donald Howieson 2019-06-18
10222296 Obtaining data concerning factors influencing a residual life of a bearing Joseph Erskine, Andrew Campbell 2019-03-05
10119943 Couplant and arrangement of couplant, transducer, and construction component Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith, Mairi Joan Torrie +2 more 2018-11-06
10041532 Sensor device with mounting means Andrew Campbell 2018-08-07
10041531 Sensor device with mounting means Andrew Campbell 2018-08-07