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De Fu Li — 10 Patents

Cisco: 7 patents #2,035 of 13,007Top 20%
Comcast: 3 patents #1,208 of 4,447Top 30%
Denver, CO: #394 of 4,554 inventorsTop 9%
Colorado: #4,661 of 40,980 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
De Fu Li has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in July 2025. De Fu Li ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list De Fu Li in Denver, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2010.peak 22008: 1 patents20082010: 2 patents20102012: 2 patents20122016: 2 patents20162023: 1 patents20232025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12375880 Methods and systems for determining signal leaks in a network Daniel Rice, John Chrostowski, Benny Lewandowski, Robert Gaydos 2025-07-29
12267247 Packet replication and usage monitoring in a network environment Carl Klatsky, Jason Combs, Aju Francis Kalarickal, Jimit Salvi, Basil Baby +1 more 2025-04-01
11758362 Methods and systems for determining signal leaks in a network Daniel Rice, John Chrostowski, Benny Lewandowski, Robert Gaydos 2023-09-12 $84,565,000
9503180 Interference detection and avoidance in a telecommunication network Hang Jin, Tong Liu, Pawel Sowinski, John Skrobko 2016-11-22 $27,280,000
9237116 Network system time domain re-stamping Xuan Wang, Jingfeng Zhang, Jie Meng, Wenwen Dong, Yong Lu 2016-01-12 $21,630,000
8201207 Apparatus and methods for moving cable modems between upstream channels James An, Hui Sun, Keil Brewer, John J. Downey, Chrisanto Leano 2012-06-12 $24,731,000
8134921 CMTS upstream channel bandwidth scheduler Robert Goguen, Pawel Sowinski, Nicos Achilleoudis 2012-03-13 $47,449,000
7839773 Modem timing offset compensation for line card redundancy failover Pawel Sowinski, James An, Robert Goguen 2010-11-23 $22,543,000
7801040 Node registration technique implemented in access networks Hemant Singh, Mark E. Millet 2010-09-21 $22,406,000
7395309 Modem activity detection Gary M. Lewis, Nathan R. Melhorn 2008-07-01 $75,027,000