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William Keith Brewer — 6 Patents

Cisco: 5 patents #2,819 of 13,007Top 25%
Austin, TX: #4,934 of 18,064 inventorsTop 30%
Texas: #24,637 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
William Keith Brewer has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in November 2025. William Keith Brewer ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list William Keith Brewer in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1999.peak 11999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12458925 Membrane devices for filtration and extraction Matthew G. FITTS 2025-11-04
7006520 System and method of operation for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices William P. Hann, Matthew Irvin, Richard L. House 2006-02-28 $28,418,000
6535520 System and method of operation for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices William P. Hann, Matthew Irvin, Richard L. House 2003-03-18 $112,547,000
6381245 Method and apparatus for generating parity for communication between a physical layer device and an ATM layer device William P. Hann, Matthew Irvin, Richard L. House 2002-04-30 $226,330,000
6252878 Switched architecture access server Robert H. Locklear, Jr., Craig Cantrell, Kip R. McClanahan, Anthony J. P. Carew 2001-06-26 $561,785,000
5905781 Communication server apparatus and method John Francis McHale, James R. Sisk, Robert H. Locklear, Jr., Clifford L. Hall 1999-05-18 $836,906,000