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James An — 8 Patents

Cisco: 6 patents #2,380 of 13,007Top 20%
Mastercard: 1 patents #1,122 of 2,005Top 60%
Sunnyvale, CA: #3,440 of 14,302 inventorsTop 25%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
James An has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in October 2020. James An ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list James An in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2010.peak 21993: 1 patents19932010: 2 patents20102012: 1 patents20122017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10812120 Ingress cancellation tachometer Richard Meller, Glendon L. Akins, III, Denis Downey, Koen Van Renterghem 2020-10-20 $47,213,000
10796311 Authentication using transaction history Christopher Bracconeri, Qian Wang, Shen Xi Meng, Nigel Noyes, Arun Acharya 2020-10-06 $207,679,000
10404298 Ingress cancellation tachometer Richard Meller, Glendon L. Akins, III, Denis Downey, Koen Van Renterghem 2019-09-03 $35,936,000
9800276 Ingress cancellation tachometer Richard Meller, Glendon L. Akins, III, Denis Downey, Koen Van Renterghem 2017-10-24 $26,787,000
8201207 Apparatus and methods for moving cable modems between upstream channels Hui Sun, De Fu Li, Keil Brewer, John J. Downey, Chrisanto Leano 2012-06-12 $24,731,000
7852759 Finite state machine of traffic stream metrics for adaptation of load-based call admission control in wireless networks David Sheldon Stephenson, Lu Qian, Bretton Douglas 2010-12-14 $26,420,000
7839773 Modem timing offset compensation for line card redundancy failover De Fu Li, Pawel Sowinski, Robert Goguen 2010-11-23 $22,543,000
D337339 Combined optical viewer and transparency housing 1993-07-13