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Francois Clad — 45 Patents

Cisco: 45 patents #191 of 13,007Top 2%
Strasbourg, FR: #2 of 833 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Francois Clad has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in June 2025. Francois Clad ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Francois Clad in Strasbourg, FR.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2023.peak 102018: 1 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 4 patents20202021: 9 patents20212022: 8 patents20222023: 10 patents20232024: 6 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12328253 Scalable network slice based queuing using segment routing flexible algorithm Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2025-06-10
12323322 Malleable routing for data packets Clarence Filsfils, Peter Psenak, Jose A. Liste 2025-06-03
12267233 Methods and apparatus for encoding local processing metadata in network headers Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo Garvia, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam 2025-04-01
12255976 Ethernet virtual private network using segment routing Patrice Brissette, Clarence Filsfils, Darren Russell Dukes, Gaurav Dawra, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2025-03-18
12160365 Circuit-style network with co-routed bidirectional network paths Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali, Bertrand Duvivier, Mikhail Koldychev, Rakesh Gandhi +1 more 2024-12-03 $37,655,000
12132606 Signaling a prefix unreachability in a network utilizing a route summarization Peter Psenak, Lester C. Ginsberg, Ketan Jivan Talaulikar, Clarence Filsfils, Stephane Litkowski 2024-10-29 $93,006,000
12088483 Telemetry data optimization for path tracing and delay measurement Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam, Rakesh Gandhi, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2024-09-10 $78,625,000
12088484 Micro segment identifier instructions for path tracing optimization Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam, Rakesh Gandhi, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2024-09-10 $78,625,000
12058038 Systems and methods for steering traffic into SR-TE policies David Delano Ward, Clarence Filsfils 2024-08-06 $65,126,000
11936759 Systems and methods for compressing a SID list Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo Garvia, Siva Sivabalan, Syed Kamran Raza 2024-03-19 $59,120,000
11855884 Communicating packets across multi-domain networks using compact forwarding instructions Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali, Peter Psenak 2023-12-26 $59,523,000
11838200 Packet network interworking including segment routing Clarence Filsfils, Swadesh Agrawal, Zafar Ali, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2023-12-05 $44,897,000
11838396 Ethernet virtual private network using segment routing Patrice Brissette, Clarence Filsfils, Darren Russell Dukes, Gaurav Dawra, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2023-12-05 $44,897,000
11757744 Micro segment identifier instructions for path tracing optimization Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam, Rakesh Gandhi, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2023-09-12 $45,547,000
11736340 Signaling a prefix unreachability in a network utilizing a route summarization Peter Psenak, Lester C. Ginsberg, Ketan Jivan Talaulikar, Clarence Filsfils, Stephane Litkowski 2023-08-22 $80,615,000
11722404 Communicating packets across multi-domain networks using compact forwarding instructions Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali, Peter Psenak 2023-08-08 $65,473,000
11716268 Telemetry data optimization for path tracing and delay measurement Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam, Rakesh Gandhi, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2023-08-01 $35,667,000
11706133 Inband group-based network policy using SRV6 Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam, Pablo Camarillo Garvia, Kiran Sasidharan Pillai 2023-07-18 $35,626,000
11652913 Ethernet virtual private network using segment routing Patrice Brissette, Clarence Filsfils, Darren Russell Dukes, Gaurav Dawra, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2023-05-16 $56,979,000
11627094 Scalable network slice based queuing using segment routing flexible algorithm Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali, Pablo Camarillo Garvia 2023-04-11 $52,123,000
11483230 Multiple domain segment routing path computation Clarence Filsfils, Muthurajah Sivabalan, Zafar Ali 2022-10-25 $42,231,000
11463561 Enhanced segment routing processing of packets Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo Garvia, David Delano Ward 2022-10-04 $51,606,000
11445048 Systems and methods for compressing a SID list Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo Garvia, Siva Sivabalan, Syed Kamran Raza 2022-09-13 $34,873,000
11424986 Method and apparatus for mobile packet core mechanism for GiLAN network slices with segment routing Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo Garvia, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam 2022-08-23 $60,096,000
11418435 Inband group-based network policy using SRV6 Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam, Pablo Camarillo Garvia, Kiran Sasidharan Pillai 2022-08-16 $81,068,000