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William Gossman — 6 Patents

Cisco: 6 patents #2,380 of 13,007Top 20%
Seattle, WA: #5,013 of 21,776 inventorsTop 25%
Washington: #16,995 of 76,902 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
William Gossman has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in May 2011. William Gossman ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list William Gossman in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2007.peak 32007: 3 patents20072010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7940656 System and method for authenticating an element in a network environment Amitava Das, Michael Wright, Joseph Salowey 2011-05-10 $19,779,000
7793336 Method and apparatus for communicating credential information within a network device authentication conversation Joseph Salowey 2010-09-07 $19,348,000
7716723 System and method for network user authentication Wayne Taylor, Joseph Salowey, Michael Wright, Amitava Das, Gopal Dommety 2010-05-11 $22,590,000
7310307 System and method for authenticating an element in a network environment Amitava Das, Michael Wright, Joseph Salowey 2007-12-18 $88,079,000
7296155 Process and system providing internet protocol security without secure domain resolution Jonathan Trostle 2007-11-13 $82,955,000
7171555 Method and apparatus for communicating credential information within a network device authentication conversation Joseph Salowey 2007-01-30 $69,430,000