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Nicholas Thomas Sullivan — 49 Patents

CLCloudflare: 30 patents #8 of 183Top 5%
Apple: 19 patents #1,739 of 18,612Top 10%
San Francisco, CA: #493 of 26,999 inventorsTop 2%
California: #8,285 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #55,592 of 4,157,543Top 2%
49 Patents All Time
Nicholas Thomas Sullivan has been granted 49 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cloudflare. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in January 2025. Nicholas Thomas Sullivan ranks #55,592 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Nicholas Thomas Sullivan in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 72011: 2 patents20112012: 5 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 6 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 5 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 49 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12206789 Using a zero-knowledge proof to prove knowledge that a website visitor is a legitimate human user Watson Bernard Ladd, Alexander Andrew Davidson, Marwan Fayed, Armando Faz Hernández, Sai Krishna Deepak Maram 2025-01-21
11647008 Generating a negative answer to a domain name system query that indicates resource records as existing for the domain name regardless of whether those resource records actually exist Daniel Morsing, Marek Przemyslaw Majkowski, Olafur Gudmundsson, Filippo Valsorda 2023-05-09 $89,401,000
11475106 Application usage policy enforcement Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Augustin J. Farrugia, David M'Raihi, Bertrand Mollinier Toublet, Gianpaolo Fasoli 2022-10-18 $195,408,000
11438178 Secure session capability using public-key cryptography without access to the private key Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht +4 more 2022-09-06 $165,131,000
11044083 Secure session capability using public-key cryptography without access to the private key Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht +4 more 2021-06-22 $182,974,000
10938554 Managing private key access in multiple nodes Brendan Scott McMillion 2021-03-02 $292,994,000
10904227 Web form protection Zi Lin, Rajeev Sharma 2021-01-26 $52,045,000
10904005 Multiply-encrypting data requiring multiple keys for decryption 2021-01-26 $52,045,000
10893031 Dynamically serving digital certificates based on secure session properties Lee Hahn Holloway, Piotr Sikora, Ryan Lackey, John Graham-Cumming, Dane Orion Knecht +2 more 2021-01-12 $305,089,000
10791110 Certificate authority framework Lee Hahn Holloway 2020-09-29 $60,885,000
10645061 Methods and systems for identification of a domain of a command and control server of a botnet 2020-05-05 $73,910,000
10594496 Secure session capability using public-key cryptography without access to the private key Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht +4 more 2020-03-17 $24,011,000
10484176 Multiply-encrypting data requiring multiple keys for decryption 2019-11-19 $19,857,000
10305871 Dynamically serving digital certificates based on secure session properties Lee Hahn Holloway, Piotr Sikora, Ryan Lackey, John Graham-Cumming, Dane Orion Knecht +2 more 2019-05-28
10177909 Managing private key access in multiple nodes Brendan Scott McMillion 2019-01-08
10178128 Methods and apparatuses for enabling HSTS policy for a subdomain of a domain Rajeev Sharma, Ryan Lackey, Zi Lin 2019-01-08
10097511 Methods and systems for identification of a domain of a command and control server of a botnet 2018-10-09
10033699 Transparent DNSSEC-signing proxy Olafur Gudmundsson, Filippo Valsorda 2018-07-24
10033529 Secure session capability using public-key cryptography without access to the private key Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht +4 more 2018-07-24
10009183 Secure session capability using public-key cryptography without access to the private key Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht +4 more 2018-06-26
9954840 Generating a negative answer to a domain name system query that indicates resource records as existing for the domain name regardless of whether those resource records actually exist for the domain name Daniel Morsing, Marek Przemyslaw Majkowski, Olafur Gudmundsson, Filippo Valsorda 2018-04-24
9942044 Multiply-encrypting data requiring multiple keys for decryption 2018-04-10
9843565 Web form protection Zi Lin, Rajeev Sharma 2017-12-12
9680807 Secure session capability using public-key cryptography without access to the private key Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Phillippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht +4 more 2017-06-13
9639687 Multiply-encrypting data requiring multiple keys for decryption 2017-05-02