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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Sep 9 2025

114 Utility Patents

#58 in Palo Alto, CA

#1,312 in California

#3,950 in US

#6,961 in the World

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Michael Xie

Forward Citations = 1,111

Company Filing History:

goldMedal112 out of 911 
 patents
silverMedal1 out of 1 
 
Fortinct, Inc.
 patent
where one patent can have more than one assignee

Michael Xie, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Fortinet, provides cybersecurity services to businesses like Panasonic and Siemens. Born in China, he moved to North America in the 1990s to study engineering at the University of Manitoba. After graduating, Xie worked at several network security companies before co-founding Fortinet with his brother Ken Xie in 2000. The California-based firm, which went public in an IPO nine years later, offers services such as enterprise firewalls, cloud security, and network security.

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