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Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)

NYSE: NET · Services-Prepackaged Software · San Francisco, CA · filing with the SEC since 2009
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

328 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Cloudflare, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
328
328 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
39
Against 41 in 2024 and 40 in 2023
Applications published
242
12 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Digital communication158
Computer technology28
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
CLOUDFLARE, INC. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
328 granted
3 published
CLOUDFLARE, INC. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
239 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,513,214Dynamically modifying HTTP connectionsDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Dec 30, 202512,513,139Access control of external capabilities exposed by a resource server for artificial intelligence modelsDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Dec 23, 202512,507,060Identity-based policy enforcement for SIM devicesDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Dec 23, 202512,505,186Identity provider (IDP) agnostic authentication enforcementDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Oct 28, 202512,457,196Secure private traffic exchange in a unified network serviceDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Oct 28, 202512,457,097Zero trust authenticationDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Oct 28, 202512,455,937Theft prevention for sensitive informationComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Oct 28, 202512,455,936Application remoting across a network using draw commandsComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Oct 21, 202512,452,345Managing artificial intelligence inference requests that are directed to an AI model external to a distributed cloud computing networkComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Oct 21, 202512,452,303Phishing email campaign identificationDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 18, 20252025/0385935IDENTIFYING MALICIOUS CLIENT NETWORK APPLICATIONS BASED ON NETWORK REQUEST CHARACTERISTICSDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Dec 18, 20252025/0384057Dynamic Allocation of Partitions in a Distributed Data Processing SystemComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Nov 27, 20252025/0365253IT Infrastructure Resource Discovery and Management For Distributed NetworkingDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Oct 2, 20252025/0307265Sequential Consistency Across a Distributed Cloud Computing NetworkComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Jul 3, 20252025/0217205Detecting Application Programming Interface (API) Sequences And Mitigating API Sequence Abuse At The Edge Of A Distributed Cloud Computing NetworkComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
May 22, 20252025/0168014USING A ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF TO PROVE KNOWLEDGE THAT A WEBSITE VISITOR IS A LEGITIMATE HUMAN USERDigital communicationCLOUDFLARE, INC.
May 1, 20252025/0138894Information Technology Infrastructure Resource GroupingComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Apr 10, 20252025/0117334CACHE PURGING IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORKED SYSTEMComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC. · patent 12,360,911 granted from it
Mar 27, 20252025/0106306ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE(S) IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC.
Mar 27, 20252025/0103744Managing Artificial Intelligence Inference Requests That Are Directed to An AI Model External To A Distributed Cloud Computing NetworkComputer technologyCLOUDFLARE, INC. · patent 12,452,345 granted from it
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Digital communication 29 · Computer technology 12.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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