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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Nov 18 2025

115 Utility Patents

#59 in Palo Alto, CA

#1,361 in California

#4,070 in US

#7,240 in the World

Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Michael Xie

Forward Citations = 1,176

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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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