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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Cloudflare, Inc.

USPTO Granted Patents = 326

EPO Patents = 5

Trademarks = 25

Forward Citations = 3,125

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216 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Matthew Browning Prince (90 out of 98 patents)

Lee Hahn Holloway (88 out of 91 patents)

Dane Orion Knecht (68 out of 74 patents)

4. John Graham-Cumming (64 out of 66 patents)

5. Matthieu Philippe François Tourne (52 out of 53 patents)

6. Ian Gerald Pye (35 out of 36 patents)

7. Ray Raymond Bejjani (35 out of 36 patents)

8. Nicholas Thomas Sullivan (29 out of 49 patents)

9. Albertus Strasheim (23 out of 24 patents)

10. Marek Przemyslaw Majkowski (22 out of 22 patents)

11. Kenton Taylor Varda (22 out of 24 patents)

12. Nicholas Alexander Wondra (20 out of 20 patents)

13. Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl (20 out of 20 patents)

14. Piotr Sikora (20 out of 20 patents)

15. Christopher Philip Branch (18 out of 19 patents)

Core Competencies:

Distributed Networking

Zero Trust Security

AI Model Management

Traffic Load Balancing

Key Management

Identity Proxy

Application Remoting

Security Policies

Malicious Attachment Detection

Internet of Things

VPN Optimization

Dynamic HTTP Modifications

326 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 12750373 - Controlling access to internet resources for certain user agents based on one or more conditions being satisfied (2026-09-29),

2. 12717641 - Detecting application programming interface (API) sequences and mitigating API sequence abuse at the edge of a distributed cloud computing network (2026-08-25),

3. 12632469 - Sequential consistency across a distributed cloud computing network (2026-05-19),

4. 12524442 - Dynamic allocation of partitions in a distributed data processing system (2026-01-13),

5. 12518300 - Serving an online advertisement asynchronously (2026-01-06),

6. 12513214 - Dynamically modifying HTTP connections (2025-12-30),

7. 12513139 - Access control of external capabilities exposed by a resource server for artificial intelligence models (2025-12-30),

8. 12507060 - Identity-based policy enforcement for SIM devices (2025-12-23),

9. 12505186 - Identity provider (IDP) agnostic authentication enforcement (2025-12-23),

10. 12457196 - Secure private traffic exchange in a unified network service (2025-10-28),

11. 12457097 - Zero trust authentication (2025-10-28),

12. 12455937 - Theft prevention for sensitive information (2025-10-28),

13. 12455936 - Application remoting across a network using draw commands (2025-10-28),

14. 12452345 - Managing artificial intelligence inference requests that are directed to an AI model external to a distributed cloud computing network (2025-10-21),

15. 12452303 - Phishing email campaign identification (2025-10-21),

Company Overview

Cloudflare, Inc. is a leading provider of distributed cloud computing solutions, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in enhancing internet security and performance through its innovative technologies, including distributed networking and zero trust security frameworks. Cloudflare's offerings encompass AI model management, traffic load balancing, key management, identity proxy services, application remoting, and comprehensive security policies, making it a pivotal player in the evolving landscape of digital infrastructure.

Profile summary synthesized from public USPTO records and patent filings.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Oct 6 2026

326 Patents

#23 in San Francisco, CA

#287 in California

#1,352 in US

#2,763 in the World

San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Cloudflare, Inc.

Forward Citations = 3,125

216 inventors:

Matthew Browning Prince (90 out of 98 patents)

Lee Hahn Holloway (88 out of 91 patents)

Dane Orion Knecht (68 out of 74 patents)

4. John Graham-Cumming (64 out of 66 patents)

5. Matthieu Philippe François Tourne (52 out of 53 patents)

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Company Patent Portfolio: Cloudflare, Inc.. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/company/cloudflare

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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