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Mark A. Bakke — 51 Patents

Cisco: 41 patents #225 of 13,007Top 2%
STStorage Technology: 7 patents #61 of 682Top 9%
QUQuantum: 1 patents #325 of 703Top 50%
Maple Grove, MN: #30 of 1,211 inventorsTop 3%
Minnesota: #848 of 52,454 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #51,932 of 4,157,543Top 2%
51 Patents All Time
Mark A. Bakke has been granted 51 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. Mark A. Bakke ranks #51,932 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Mark A. Bakke in Maple Grove, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2008.peak 91996: 1 patents19962001: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 3 patents20062007: 6 patents2008: 9 patents20082009: 5 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 51 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12513088 Flow parser and per flow data center utilization in a cloud-based secure access service environment Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, William Mark Townsley 2025-12-30
12457216 Access control and routing optimization at a cloud headend in a cloud-based secure access service environment 2025-10-28
12132734 Access control and routing optimization at a cloud headend in a cloud-based secure access service environment 2024-10-29 $93,006,000
12058051 Flow parser and per flow data center utilization in a cloud-based secure access service environment Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, William Mark Townsley 2024-08-06 $65,126,000
11531491 Systems and methods for random to sequential storage mapping Edward Fiore, Michael J. Klemm, Marc David Olin 2022-12-20 $1,839,000
11151102 Systems and methods for data management using zero-touch tagging Marc David Olin, Michael J. Klemm, Edward Fiore 2021-10-19
11112995 Systems and methods for random to sequential storage mapping Edward Fiore, Michael J. Klemm, Marc David Olin 2021-09-07
9294351 Dynamic policy based interface configuration for virtualized environments Anuraag Mittal, Prasad Miriyala 2016-03-22 $28,703,000
9178800 Policy based configuration of interfaces in a virtual machine environment David Thompson, Timothy J. Kuik, Saravanakumar Rajendran 2015-11-03 $30,424,000
8879554 Preventing MAC spoofs in a distributed virtual switch Vishnu Emmadi, Nadathur Srinivasan Sundar 2014-11-04 $34,328,000
8819242 Method and system to transfer data utilizing cut-through sockets David Thompson, Timothy J. Kuik, Paul Harry Gleichauf 2014-08-26 $26,872,000
8713180 Zero-copy network and file offload for web and application servers Timothy J. Kuik, David Thompson 2014-04-29 $29,978,000
8639783 Policy based configuration of interfaces in a virtual machine environment David Thompson, Timothy J. Kuik, Saravanakumar Rajendran 2014-01-28 $23,551,000
8472443 Port grouping for association with virtual interfaces Narender Enduri, Michael Smith 2013-06-25 $38,217,000
8321559 Transparent mode Stephen P. De Groote, Bonny Parker 2012-11-27 $31,366,000
8213336 Distributed data center access switch Michael R. Smith, Anusankar Elangovan, David Thompson 2012-07-03 $32,270,000
8156230 Offload stack for network, block and file input and output Timothy J. Kuik, David Thompson, Paul Harry Gleichauf, Xiaoxue Ma 2012-04-10 $19,043,000
8127412 Network context triggers for activating virtualized computer applications Paul Harry Gleichauf, Timothy J. Kuik, David Thompson, Xiaoxue Ma 2012-03-06 $31,802,000
8037180 Centralized control plane appliance for virtual infrastructure Michael R. Smith, Saravanakumar Rajendran, Paul Fazzone, Shriram Velaga, Paul Harry Gleichauf 2011-10-11 $21,341,000
7966403 Performance profiling for improved data throughput Ayman Mohammad Ghanem 2011-06-21 $32,506,000
7949766 Offload stack for network, block and file input and output Timothy J. Kuik, David Thompson, Paul Harry Gleichauf, Xiaoxue Ma 2011-05-24 $35,204,000
7774449 Performance profiling for improved data throughput Ayman Mohammad Ghanem 2010-08-10 $20,228,000
7730210 Virtual MAC address system and method Timothy J. Kuik 2010-06-01 $22,237,000
7694168 Network router failover mechanism Dennis Hadders, Stephen P. De Groote 2010-04-06 $21,038,000
7634453 Distributed file data location Harold G. Varnis 2009-12-15