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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Barefoot Networks, Inc.

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USPTO Granted Patents = 151

% Expired Patents = 15.9

Trademarks = 9

Forward Citations = 1,248

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52 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Patrick W Bosshart (60 out of 162 patents)

Changhoon Kim (57 out of 68 patents)

Anurag Agrawal (42 out of 59 patents)

4. Jeongkeun Lee (36 out of 53 patents)

5. Michael Gregory Ferrara (25 out of 28 patents)

6. Jay Evan Scott Peterson (18 out of 18 patents)

7. Chaitanya Kodeboyina (18 out of 19 patents)

8. Julianne Zhu (18 out of 26 patents)

9. Xiaozhou Li (16 out of 17 patents)

10. Steven Licking (16 out of 16 patents)

11. Remy Chang (16 out of 17 patents)

12. Michael E Attig (12 out of 27 patents)

13. Masoud Moshref Javadi (11 out of 11 patents)

14. Michael Feng (10 out of 21 patents)

15. Yi Li (10 out of 21 patents)

Core Competencies:

Packet Header Extraction

Congestion Identification

Flow Learning Circuits

Key-Value Processing

Stateful Traffic Management

Dynamic Reconfiguration

Data Plane Verification

Link Aggregation Failover

Heavy Hitter Detection

DDoS Attack Detection

Programmable Packet Engine

Virtual Queue Allocation

151 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 12463884 - Dynamically reconfiguring data plane of forwarding element to account for power consumption (2025-11-04),

2. 12457172 - Packet header field extraction (2025-10-28),

3. 12445542 - Configuring a switch for extracting packet header fields (2025-10-14),

4. 12407564 - Identifying and marking failed egress links in data plane (2025-09-02),

5. 12381962 - Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline (2025-08-05),

6. 12375588 - Generation of descriptive data for packet fields (2025-07-29),

7. 12255835 - Messaging between remote controller and forwarding element (2025-03-18),

8. 12244519 - Link aggregation group failover for multicast (2025-03-04),

9. 12206599 - Network forwarding element with key-value processing in the data plane (2025-01-21),

10. 12197509 - Algorithmic TCAM based ternary lookup (2025-01-14),

11. 12088504 - Using stateful traffic management data to perform packet processing (2024-09-10),

12. 12052138 - Dynamically reconfiguring data plane of forwarding element to account for power consumption (2024-07-30),

13. 12040976 - Packet header field extraction (2024-07-16),

14. 11929944 - Network forwarding element with key-value processing in the data plane (2024-03-12),

15. 11838318 - Data plane with connection validation circuits (2023-12-05),

Company Overview

Barefoot Networks, Inc., based in Santa Clara, CA, specializes in advanced data plane processing technologies. The company focuses on enhancing network performance through innovative solutions such as packet header extraction, congestion identification, and flow learning circuits. Their expertise extends to stateful traffic management and dynamic reconfiguration, enabling efficient data handling and verification. Barefoot's technologies are pivotal in optimizing network infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability in modern data communication systems.

Profile summary synthesized from public USPTO records and patent filings.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Nov 3 2026

151 Patents

#28 in Santa Clara, CA

#580 in California

#2,614 in US

#5,407 in the World

Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Barefoot Networks, Inc.

Forward Citations = 1,248

52 inventors:

Patrick W Bosshart (60 out of 162 patents)

Changhoon Kim (57 out of 68 patents)

Anurag Agrawal (42 out of 59 patents)

4. Jeongkeun Lee (36 out of 53 patents)

5. Michael Gregory Ferrara (25 out of 28 patents)

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Company Patent Portfolio: Barefoot Networks, Inc.. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/company/barefoot-networks

Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile

Data Sources: USPTO Patent Grant XML, Patent Center, EPO & CIPO • Normalized by IDiyas Innovation Graph. Methodology & provenance architecturePlease report any incorrect information to [email protected]

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