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Ronald Johnson — 8 Patents

Cisco: 8 patents #1,771 of 13,007Top 15%
San Ramon, CA: #557 of 2,140 inventorsTop 30%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Ronald Johnson has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in November 2019. Ronald Johnson ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Ronald Johnson in San Ramon, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2009.peak 32009: 3 patents20092013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10476588 Automatic bandwidth optimization for optical networks Maurizio Gazzola, Stefano Piciaccia, Lorenzo Ghioni, Alberto Tanzi, Sushin Suresan Adackaconam 2019-11-12 $38,097,000
9059814 Modular optical patch panel Lorenzo Ghioni, Maurizio Gazzola 2015-06-16 $30,096,000
8903240 Scalable reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer Lorenzo Ghioni, Enrico Self, Stefano Piciaccia, Maurizio Gazzola, Luca Della Chiesa 2014-12-02 $18,462,000
8670669 Directionless reconfigurable optical add and drop mesh node Maurizio Gazzola, Lorenzo Ghioni 2014-03-11 $48,230,000
8412042 Innovative architecture for fully non blocking service aggregation without O-E-O conversion in a DWDM multiring interconnection node Lorenzo Ghioni, Maurizio Gazzola 2013-04-02 $33,081,000
7633967 Multi-functional line card for metro optical applications Maurizio Gazzola, David Bianchi, Jeffrey Douglas Maddox, Luca Della Chiesa 2009-12-15 $29,690,000
7634196 Optical add/drop multiplexer with reconfigurable add wavelength selective switch Ornan Gerstel, Stefano Piciaccia, Mauro Macchi, Mauro Rudi Casanova 2009-12-15 $29,690,000
7542653 Passive fiber organizer for mesh network node interconnections Stefano Piciaccia, Ornan Gerstel, Mauro Rudi Casanova 2009-06-02 $39,146,000