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Frank Brockners — 79 Patents

Cisco: 79 patents #69 of 13,007Top 1%
Overall (All Time): #23,150 of 4,157,543Top 1%
79 Patents All Time
Frank Brockners has been granted 79 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in August 2025. Frank Brockners ranks #23,150 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.56%). Patent records list Frank Brockners in Cologne, CA, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2021.peak 132010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 7 patents2021: 13 patents20212022: 12 patents2023: 9 patents20232024: 11 patents2025: 11 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 79 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12395412 Method and apparatus for cross-layer, in-band monitoring of tunnels by insertion of telemetry data into a packet Domenico Ficara, Vincent Cuissard, Luca Bisti, Alessandro Erta, Arun G. Khanna 2025-08-19
12395404 Symbiotic network orchestrator for computing networks Pablo Garcia del Valle, Tal Maoz, Benjamin William Ryder, Aviad Rom 2025-08-19
12367294 Automated data compliance and observability Marcelo Yannuzzi, Hervé Muyal, Jean Andrei Diaconu, Carlos Goncalves Pereira 2025-07-22
12368768 High scalability and end-to-end consistency for web applications in distributed environments Marco Trinelli, Tamás Galló, Rafael Machado da Silva, Trevor Smith 2025-07-22
12363191 Attestation-based scheme for validating peering setups for critical infrastructure protocols Sujal Sheth, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, William F. Sulzen 2025-07-15
12307294 Partitioning and placement of models of models at a network edge Leo Marche, Thomas Michel-Ange Feltin, Andre Surcouf 2025-05-20
12301430 Hidden-layer routing for disaggregated artificial neural networks Robert Edgar Barton, Jerome Henry, Matthias Falkner, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Thomas Michel-Ange Feltin 2025-05-13
12301404 In-situ operations, administration, and maintenance extension to trace multicast tree and identify failure node Mankamana Mishra Prasad, Nitin Kumar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Rakesh Gandhi 2025-05-13
12282575 Dynamic resolution and enforcement of data compliance Marcelo Yannuzzi, Hervé Muyal, Jean Andrei Diaconu, Carlos Goncalves Pereira 2025-04-22
12267357 Verifying the trust-worthiness of ARP senders and receivers using attestation-based methods Sujal Sheth, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, William F. Sulzen 2025-04-01
12206581 Path signatures for data flows Atri Indiresan, Shwetha Subray Bhandari 2025-01-21
12113663 Unjoining and rejoining clusters in computing networks Trevor Smith, Sándor Szilárd Magyari, Marco Trinelli, Tal Maoz 2024-10-08 $73,450,000
12003368 Symbiotic network orchestrator for computing networks Pablo Garcia del Valle, Tal Maoz, Benjamin William Ryder, Aviad Rom 2024-06-04 $46,163,000
11979412 Verification of in-situ network telemetry data in a packet-switched network Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Santhosh N, Rakesh Reddy Kandula, Saiprasad Muchala 2024-05-07 $39,941,000
11960607 Achieving minimum trustworthiness in distributed workloads Eric Voit, Einar Nilsen-Nygaard, Pradeep Kumar Kathail 2024-04-16 $50,173,000
11956273 Discovering trustworthy devices using attestation and mutual attestation Sujal Sheth, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, William F. Sulzen 2024-04-09 $74,688,000
11934525 Network security by integrating mutual attestation Sujal Sheth, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, William F. Sulzen 2024-03-19 $59,120,000
11924043 Establishing trust relationships of IPv6 neighbors using attestation-based methods in IPv6 neighbor discovery Sujal Sheth, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, William F. Sulzen 2024-03-05 $31,150,000
11924223 Technologies for proving packet transit through uncompromised nodes Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, Carlos M. Pignataro, Nagendra Kumar Nainar 2024-03-05 $31,150,000
11902139 Diagnosing and resolving issues in a network using probe packets Atri Indiresan, Akshay Dorwat 2024-02-13 $32,056,000
11882176 Attestation-based scheme for validating peering setups for critical infrastructure protocols Sujal Sheth, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, William F. Sulzen 2024-01-23 $44,301,000
11863433 Scalable and programmable mechanism for targeted in-situ OAM implementation in segment routing networks Clarence Filsfils, Zafar Ali 2024-01-02 $26,269,000
11818044 Path signatures for data flows Atri Indiresan, Shwetha Subray Bhandari 2023-11-14 $28,717,000
11818141 Path validation checks for proof of security Craig Thomas Hill, Sujal Sheth, Cesar Obediente 2023-11-14 $28,717,000
11784808 Authentication of network devices using access control protocols Sujal Sheth, Shwetha Subray Bhandari, Eric Voit, William F. Sulzen 2023-10-10 $34,136,000