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Mark Townsley — 5 Patents

Cisco: 5 patents #2,819 of 13,007Top 25%
San Francisco, CA: #8,231 of 26,999 inventorsTop 35%
California: #107,996 of 386,348 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Mark Townsley has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in July 2025. Mark Townsley ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Mark Townsley in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2019 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2020.peak 32019: 1 patents20192020: 3 patents20202025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12348422 Load-aware hardware load balancer Zhiyuan Yao, Yoann Desmouceaux 2025-07-01
10778576 System and method for providing a bit indexed service chain Pierre Pfister, Yoann Desmouceaux 2020-09-15 $44,953,000
10659425 Network monitoring and control system and method David Delano Ward, Andre Surcouf, Alain Fiocco 2020-05-19 $51,516,000
10601769 Mapping between classical URLs and ICN networks Andre Surcouf, Eric Vyncke 2020-03-24 $33,919,000
10225187 System and method for providing a bit indexed service chain Pierre Pfister, Yoann Desmouceaux 2019-03-05 $37,866,000