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Steven Flanders — 24 Patents

Cisco: 13 patents #1,040 of 13,007Top 8%
IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
Broadcom: 3 patents #3,179 of 9,346Top 35%
BCBeijing Apollo Ding Rong Solar Technology Co.: 2 patents #11 of 51Top 25%
EXExergyn: 1 patents #72 of 205Top 40%
Lam Research: 1 patents #1,379 of 2,128Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #2,646 of 32,062 inventorsTop 9%
California: #23,266 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Steven Flanders has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in October 2025. Steven Flanders ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Steven Flanders in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2022.peak 71996: 1 patents19962001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102014: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 7 patents2023: 4 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12455807 Extracting contextualized metrics from spans in a microservices-based architecture Mayank Agarwal, Steven Karis, Justin Smith 2025-10-28
11928014 In a microservices-based application, tracking errors by mapping traces to error stacks Mayank Agarwal, Justin Smith, Gergely Danyi 2024-03-12 $52,374,000
11789943 Configuring alerts for tags associated with high-latency and error spans for instrumented software Gergely Danyi, Joseph Ari Ross, Justin Smith, Eric Wohlstadter, Chengyu Yang 2023-10-17 $26,221,000
11762728 Displaying error stacks in a graphical user interface (GUI) to track error propagation across microservices-based applications Mayank Agarwal, Justin Smith, Gergely Danyi 2023-09-19 $51,034,000
11762759 Multiple modes of storing and querying trace data in a microservices-based architecture Mayank Agarwal, Dmitrii Anoshin, Steven Karis, Justin Smith, Eric Wohlstadter 2023-09-19 $51,034,000
11755446 Application topology graph for representing uninstrumented objects in a microservices-based architecture Mayank Agarwal, Gergely Danyi, Steven Karis, Maxime Petazzoni, Justin Smith +1 more 2023-09-12 $12,294,000
11537492 Application topology graph for representing instrumented and uninstrumented objects in a microservices-based architecture Mayank Agarwal, Gergely Danyi, Steven Karis, Maxime Petazzoni, Justin Smith +1 more 2022-12-27 $28,260,000
11405300 Methods and systems to adjust resources and monitoring configuration of objects in a distributed computing system Nicholas Kushmerick, Vardan Movsisyan 2022-08-02 $43,815,000
11379475 Analyzing tags associated with high-latency and error spans for instrumented software Gergely Danyi, Joseph Ari Ross, Justin Smith, Eric Wohlstadter, Chengyu Yang 2022-07-05 $29,649,000
11347578 Tracking error propagation across microservices-based applications Mayank Agarwal, Justin Smith, Gergely Danyi 2022-05-31 $24,463,000
11336505 Persistent alert notes Vardan Movsisyan 2022-05-17 $7,826,000
11321160 In a microservices-based application, mapping distributed error stacks across multiple dimensions Mayank Agarwal, Justin Smith, Gergely Danyi 2022-05-03 $36,415,000
11256604 Multiple modes of data collection and analysis in a microservices-based architecture Mayank Agarwal, Dmitrii Anoshin, Steven Karis, Justin Smith, Eric Wohlstadter 2022-02-22 $39,200,000
11030068 Graphical user interface (GUI) for representing instrumented and uninstrumented objects in a microservices-based architecture Mayank Agarwal, Gergely Danyi, Steven Karis, Maxime Petazzoni, Justin Smith +1 more 2021-06-08 $32,942,000
11010235 Tracking error propagation across microservices based applications using distributed error stacks Mayank Agarwal, Justin Smith, Gergely Danyi 2021-05-18 $21,705,000
10158031 Interconnect assembly Mulugeta Zerfu Wudu, Jason Stephen Corneille, Steven Thomas Croft, William James McColl 2018-12-18
10083590 Encouraging alert responsiveness Vardan Movsisyan 2018-09-25 $18,946,000
9620660 Interconnect assembly Mulugeta Zerfu Wudu, Jason Stephen Corneille, Steven Thomas Croft, William James McColl 2017-04-11
8912429 Interconnect assembly Mulugeta Zerfu Wudu, Jason Stephen Corneille, Steven Thomas Croft, William James McColl 2014-12-16
7845308 Systems incorporating microwave heaters within fluid supply lines of substrate processing chambers and methods for use of such systems Jason Stephen Corneille, Nancy E. Gilbert, Robert Tas, Timothy Joseph Franklin, Jason Wright +2 more 2010-12-07 $40,949,000
6534225 Tapered ion implantation with femtosecond laser ablation to remove printable alternating phase shift features Dennis M. Hayden, Timothy E. Neary 2003-03-18 $13,080,000
6426177 Single component developer for use with ghost exposure Thomas B. Faure, Lyndon S. Gibbs, James P. Levin, Harold G. Linde, Joseph L. Malenfant, Jr. +1 more 2002-07-30 $10,205,000
6270949 Single component developer for copolymer resists Thomas B. Faure, James P. Levin, Harold G. Linde, Jeffrey F. Shepard 2001-08-07 $22,988,000
5503951 Attenuating phase-shift mask structure and fabrication method David S. O'Grady 1996-04-02 $14,167,000