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Rob Liston — 11 Patents

Cisco: 11 patents #1,278 of 13,007Top 10%
Menlo Park, CA: #777 of 3,774 inventorsTop 25%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Rob Liston has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in July 2023. Rob Liston ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Rob Liston in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11699080 Communication efficient machine learning of data across multiple sites Xiaoqing Zhu, Yaqi Wang, Dan Tan, Mehdi Nikkhah 2023-07-11 $46,362,000
11144616 Training distributed machine learning with selective data transfers Wai-tian Tan, John G. Apostolopoulos, Xiaoqing Zhu 2021-10-12 $47,226,000
10937167 Automated generation of pre-labeled training data John G. Apostolopoulos 2021-03-02 $40,379,000
10743188 Wireless beamforming optimization using client location information John G. Apostolopoulos, Dan Tan, Mehdi Nikkhah, Xiaoqing Zhu, Herbert M. Wildfeuer 2020-08-11 $33,844,000
10382973 Wireless beamforming optimization using client location information John G. Apostolopoulos, Dan Tan, Mehdi Nikkhah, Xiaoqing Zhu, Herbert M. Wildfeuer 2019-08-13 $30,591,000
10275683 Clustering-based person re-identification Xiaoqing Zhu, John G. Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan 2019-04-30 $49,796,000
10242449 Automated generation of pre-labeled training data John G. Apostolopoulos 2019-03-26 $37,042,000
10234291 Collaborative localization between phone and infrastructure Wai-tian Tan, Xiaoqing Zhu, Mehdi Nikkhah, Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey 2019-03-19 $50,323,000
10145962 Adaptive localization and incremental deployment of infrastructure with crowd-sourced feedback Mehdi Nikkhah, Wai-tan Tan, Xiaoqing Zhu, Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey 2018-12-04 $48,685,000
9760517 Network-USB (NUSB) communication system by which network applications communicate with USB devices over power-over-ethernet (PoE) connection Koussalya Balasubramanian, Naoshad Mehta 2017-09-12 $24,578,000
9690732 Power-over-ethernet (POE)-enabled network device and USB device power negotiation using USB to POE protocol conversion Koussalya Balasubramanian 2017-06-27 $26,091,000