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Michael Standish Watts — 28 Patents

Cisco: 28 patents #373 of 13,007Top 3%
Los Altos, CA: #427 of 3,651 inventorsTop 15%
California: #19,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Michael Standish Watts has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in June 2025. Michael Standish Watts ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Michael Standish Watts in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2021.peak 72018: 5 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 7 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 4 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12335275 System for monitoring and managing datacenters Navindra Yadav, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shashidhar Gandham, Ellen Christine Scheib, Omid Madani +17 more 2025-06-17
12212476 System and method for network policy simulation Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2025-01-28
12192078 System and method of assigning reputation scores to hosts Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2025-01-07
12177097 Policy utilization analysis Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2024-12-24 $62,096,000
11968103 Policy utilization analysis Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2024-04-23 $45,821,000
11936663 System for monitoring and managing datacenters Navindra Yadav, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shashidhar Gandham, Ellen Christine Scheib, Omid Madani +17 more 2024-03-19 $59,120,000
11924073 System and method of assigning reputation scores to hosts Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2024-03-05 $31,150,000
11646940 Intent driven network policy platform Rohit Chandra Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Viet Nguyen, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shih-Chun Chang +7 more 2023-05-09 $76,981,000
11528283 System for monitoring and managing datacenters Navindra Yadav, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shashidhar Gandham, Ellen Christine Scheib, Omid Madani +17 more 2022-12-13 $83,180,000
11146454 Intent driven network policy platform Rohit Chandra Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Viet Nguyen, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shih-Chun Chang +7 more 2021-10-12 $47,226,000
11128700 Load balancing configuration based on traffic flow telemetry Supreeth Rao, Navindra Yadav, Umamaheswaran Arumugam, Shashi Gandham, Darshan Shrinath Purandare +6 more 2021-09-21 $40,996,000
11102093 System and method of assigning reputation scores to hosts Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2021-08-24 $48,537,000
11044170 Network migration assistant Ali Parandehgheibi, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Navindra Yadav, Vimal Jeyakumar 2021-06-22 $54,047,000
10999149 Automatic configuration discovery based on traffic flow data Supreeth Rao, Navindra Yadav, Umamaheswaran Arumugam, Shashi Gandham, Prasannakumar Jobigenahally Malleshaiah +6 more 2021-05-04 $59,541,000
10979322 Techniques for determining network anomalies in data center networks Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Navindra Yadav, Hai Trong Vu, Jackson Ngoc Ki Pang, Khawar Deen 2021-04-13 $78,495,000
10904116 Policy utilization analysis Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2021-01-26 $32,256,000
10797970 Interactive hierarchical network chord diagram for application dependency mapping Jackson Ngoc Ki Pang, Ali Parandehgheibi, Navindra Yadav 2020-10-06 $31,870,000
10798015 Discovery of middleboxes using traffic flow stitching Supreeth Rao, Navindra Yadav, Umamaheswaran Arumugam, Shashi Gandham, Duy Nguyen +6 more 2020-10-06 $31,870,000
10686804 System for monitoring and managing datacenters Navindra Yadav, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shashidhar Gandham, Ellen Christine Scheib, Omid Madani +17 more 2020-06-16 $70,467,000
10594560 Intent driven network policy platform Rohit Chandra Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Viet Nguyen, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shih-Chun Chang +7 more 2020-03-17 $50,130,000
10554501 Network migration assistant Ali Parandehgheibi, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Navindra Yadav, Vimal Jeyakumar 2020-02-04 $40,803,000
10326673 Techniques for determining network topologies Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Hai Trong Vu, Jackson Ngoc Ki Pang, Navindra Yadav, Khawar Deen 2019-06-18 $83,329,000
10243817 System and method of assigning reputation scores to hosts Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2019-03-26 $37,042,000
10142353 System for monitoring and managing datacenters Navindra Yadav, Abhishek Ranjan Singh, Shashidhar Gandham, Ellen Christine Scheib, Omid Madani +17 more 2018-11-27 $34,742,000
10129117 Conditional policies Sunil Gupta, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Shashidhar Gandham, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha +1 more 2018-11-13 $45,151,000