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William E. Jennings — 24 Patents

Cisco: 13 patents #1,040 of 13,007Top 8%
FAFarmx: 10 patents #1 of 7Top 15%
BNBay Networks, Nc.: 1 patents #39 of 115Top 35%
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
William E. Jennings has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in February 2025. William E. Jennings ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list William E. Jennings in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2001.peak 51996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents2000: 2 patents20002001: 5 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042008: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 2 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12216440 Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil Zachary Gentry 2025-02-04
11853021 Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil by converting frequency of operating signal Zachary Gentry 2023-12-26
11726075 Advanced systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence 2023-08-15
11519896 Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus 2022-12-06
11464179 Systems providing irrigation optimization using sensor networks and soil moisture modeling Robin Lucien Woodby, Kentaro Fitzgerald Kuwata 2022-10-11
11166404 Systems and methods for virtual agronomic sensing Peter Oaklander, Kentaro Fitzgerald Kuwata, Robin Lucien Woodby 2021-11-09
10983489 Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil Zachary Gentry 2021-04-20
10746720 Soil moisture monitoring systems and methods for measuring mutual inductance of area of influence using radio frequency stimulus 2020-08-18
10533956 Multi-depth soil moisture monitoring systems and methods to evaluate soil type, packaged in small round polyvinyl chloride tube, with potting and rodent protection, for effective measurements and installation 2020-01-14
10509378 Systems and methods for soil modeling and automatic irrigation control Zachary Gentry 2019-12-17
7895412 Programmable arrayed processing engine architecture for a network switch Darren Kerr, Kenneth Michael Key, Michael L. Wright 2011-02-22 $34,780,000
7380101 Architecture for a processor complex of an arrayed pipelined processing engine Michael L. Wright, Darren Kerr, Kenneth Michael Key 2008-05-27 $92,541,000
6836838 Architecture for a processor complex of an arrayed pipelined processing engine Michael L. Wright, Darren Kerr, Kenneth Michael Key 2004-12-28 $200,931,000
6513108 Programmable processing engine for efficiently processing transient data Darren Kerr, Kenneth Michael Key, Michael L. Wright 2003-01-28 $120,464,000
6442669 Architecture for a process complex of an arrayed pipelined processing engine Michael L. Wright, Darren Kerr, Kenneth Michael Key 2002-08-27 $234,189,000
6272621 Synchronization and control system for an arrayed processing engine Kenneth Michael Key, Michael L. Wright, Darren Kerr 2001-08-07 $386,532,000
6226771 Method and apparatus for generating error detection data for encapsulated frames Stephen C. Hilla, James M. Edwards, Timothy F. Masterson 2001-05-01 $531,873,000
6195739 Method and apparatus for passing data among processor complex stages of a pipelined processing engine Michael L. Wright, Darren Kerr, Kenneth Michael Key 2001-02-27 $658,135,000
6182267 Ensuring accurate data checksum Jeffrey Kidd 2001-01-30 $550,703,000
6173386 Parallel processor with debug capability Kenneth Michael Key, Michael L. Wright, Darren Kerr, Scott Nellenbach 2001-01-09 $1,868,196,000
6119215 Synchronization and control system for an arrayed processing engine Kenneth Michael Key, Michael L. Wright, Darren Kerr 2000-09-12 $1,095,978,000
6101599 System for context switching between processing elements in a pipeline of processing elements Michael L. Wright, Kenneth Michael Key, Darren Kerr 2000-08-08 $1,125,936,000
5632021 Computer system with cascaded peripheral component interconnect (PCI) buses Roland G. Chan, John L. Wong 1997-05-20 $423,478,000
5490252 System having central processor for transmitting generic packets to another processor to be altered and transmitting altered packets back to central processor for routing Mario Macera, Dennis Josifovich, George W. Kajos, John A. Mastroianni, Francis E. Neil +4 more 1996-02-06