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CLOUDFLARE, INC.

City:

San Francisco, California

Country:

United States

Published Applications:

317

Last publication date:

2025-12-18

Patent Grants:

315

Last grant date:

2026-01-13

Quarterly CLOUDFLARE, INC. Patent Applications

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Recent patent applications by CLOUDFLARE, INC.

CLOUDFLARE, INC. based in San Francisco, US has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2025-12-18 βœ… Patent 12,524,442 granted on 2026-01-13
US20250384057A1
Physics

Dynamic Allocation of Partitions in a Distributed Data Processing System

#2 | 2025-11-27
US20250365253A1
Electricity

IT Infrastructure Resource Discovery and Management For Distributed Networking

#3 | 2025-10-21 βœ… Patent 12,452,193 granted on 2025-10-21
US18896714
Electricity

Automatic speculation configuration management

#4 | 2025-10-21 βœ… Patent 12,452,292 granted on 2025-10-21
US18744401
Electricity

Inspecting requests and responses to identify application vulnerabilities

#5 | 2025-10-02 βœ… Patent 12,632,469 granted on 2026-05-19
US20250307265A1
Physics

Sequential Consistency Across a Distributed Cloud Computing Network

#6 | 2025-06-03 βœ… Patent 12,321,453 granted on 2025-06-03
US17409648
Physics

Machine learning-based malicious attachment detector

#7 | 2025-05-01
US20250138894A1
Physics

Information Technology Infrastructure Resource Grouping

#8 | 2025-03-27 βœ… Patent 12,452,345 granted on 2025-10-21
US20250103744A1
Physics

Managing Artificial Intelligence Inference Requests That Are Directed to An AI Model External To A Distributed Cloud Computing Network

#9 | 2025-02-25 βœ… Patent 12,238,098 granted on 2025-02-25
US18809098
Electricity

System for cross-domain identity management (SCIM) proxy service

#10 | 2024-12-31 βœ… Patent 12,182,167 granted on 2024-12-31
US18740932
Physics

Sequential consistency across a distributed cloud computing network

#11 | 2024-11-28 βœ… Patent 12,348,614 granted on 2025-07-01
US20240396713A1
Electricity

DISTRIBUTED KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH A KEY LOOKUP SERVICE

#12 | 2024-10-31 βœ… Patent 12,395,556 granted on 2025-08-19
US20240364783A1
Electricity

State Management and Storage With Policy Enforcement in a Distributed Cloud Computing Network

#13 | 2024-09-12 βœ… Patent 12,407,625 granted on 2025-09-02
US20240305583A1
Electricity

IT Infrastructure Resource Discovery and Management For Distributed Networking

#14 | 2024-08-29 βœ… Patent 12,278,843 granted on 2025-04-15
US20240291867A1
Electricity

Enforcing security policies in a zero trust security framework using a behavioral score

#15 | 2024-08-08 βœ… Patent 12,314,773 granted on 2025-05-27
US20240264877A1
Physics

Dynamic selection of where to execute application code in a distributed cloud computing network

#16 | 2024-08-01 βœ… Patent 12,224,987 granted on 2025-02-11
US20240259347A1
Electricity

Machine learning based web application firewall

#17 | 2024-07-30 βœ… Patent 12,050,799 granted on 2024-07-30
US18401201
Physics

State management and persistent data storage in a distributed cloud computing network

#18 | 2024-07-09 βœ… Patent 12,034,726 granted on 2024-07-09
US18326811
Electricity

Logging access types based on inserting tenant control headers into requests

#19 | 2024-06-13 βœ… Patent 12,425,366 granted on 2025-09-23
US20240195780A1
Electricity

ESTABLISHING AND USING A TUNNEL FROM AN ORIGIN SERVER IN A DISTRIBUTED EDGE COMPUTE AND ROUTING SERVICE

#20 | 2024-05-30 βœ… Patent 12,452,303 granted on 2025-10-21
US20240179180A1
Electricity

PHISHING EMAIL CAMPAIGN IDENTIFICATION

#21 | 2024-05-30 βœ… Patent 12,294,471 granted on 2025-05-06
US20240179026A1
Electricity

Network layer performance and security provided by a distributed cloud computing network

#22 | 2024-05-23 βœ… Patent 12,335,263 granted on 2025-06-17
US20240171576A1
Electricity

IDENTITY PROXY AND ACCESS GATEWAY

#23 | 2024-05-16 βœ… Patent 12,328,357 granted on 2025-06-10
US20240163350A1
Electricity

Virtual Private Network (VPN) Whose Traffic Is Intelligently Routed

#24 | 2024-05-16 βœ… Patent 12,267,346 granted on 2025-04-01
US20240163301A1
Electricity

Isolating internet-of-things (IoT) devices using a secure overlay network

#25 | 2024-05-16 βœ… Patent 12,455,937 granted on 2025-10-28
US20240160683A1
Physics

THEFT PREVENTION FOR SENSITIVE INFORMATION

#26 | 2024-05-02 βœ… Patent 12,430,617 granted on 2025-09-30
US20240144190A1
Physics

BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE DETECTION SYSTEM

#27 | 2024-04-18 βœ… Patent 12,273,316 granted on 2025-04-08
US20240129273A1
Electricity

Selection of an egress IP address for egress traffic of a distributed cloud computing network

#28 | 2024-04-18 βœ… Patent 12,105,829 granted on 2024-10-01
US20240126913A1
Physics

Persisting encrypted remote browser data at a local browser for use in a remote browser

#29 | 2024-04-18 βœ… Patent 12,248,792 granted on 2025-03-11
US20240126569A1
Physics

Cloud computing platform that executes code in a distributed cloud computing network

#30 | 2024-04-16 βœ… Patent 11,960,407 granted on 2024-04-16
US18482707
Physics

Cache purging in a distributed networked system

#31 | 2024-04-11 βœ… Patent 12,445,483 granted on 2025-10-14
US20240121265A1
Electricity

Authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) Server Responding to DNS Requests With IP Addresses Selected from a Larger Pool Of IP Addresses

#32 | 2024-04-04 βœ… Patent 12,401,500 granted on 2025-08-26
US20240113866A1
Electricity

DISTRIBUTED KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

#33 | 2024-03-28 βœ… Patent 12,363,174 granted on 2025-07-15
US20240106864A1
Electricity

CLOUD-BASED SECURITY SERVICE THAT INCLUDES EXTERNAL EVALUATION FOR ACCESSING A THIRD-PARTY APPLICATION

#34 | 2024-03-26 βœ… Patent 11,943,308 granted on 2024-03-26
US18148352
Electricity

Dynamically modifying HTTP connections

#35 | 2024-03-21 βœ… Patent 12,457,196 granted on 2025-10-28
US20240098061A1
Electricity

SECURE PRIVATE TRAFFIC EXCHANGE IN A UNIFIED NETWORK SERVICE

#36 | 2024-03-14 βœ… Patent 12,284,247 granted on 2025-04-22
US20240089320A1
Electricity

State management and object storage in a distributed cloud computing network

#37 | 2024-03-14 βœ… Patent 12,395,377 granted on 2025-08-19
US20240089315A1
Electricity

TRAFFIC LOAD BALANCING BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF POINTS OF PRESENCE OF A CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE

#38 | 2024-02-06 βœ… Patent 11,895,227 granted on 2024-02-06
US18322265
Electricity

Distributed key management system with a key lookup service

#39 | 2024-02-06 βœ… Patent 11,895,151 granted on 2024-02-06
US17574443
Electricity

Phishing email campaign identification

#40 | 2024-01-16 βœ… Patent 11,875,151 granted on 2024-01-16
US18359818
Physics

Inter-process serving of machine learning features from mapped memory for machine learning models

#41 | 2024-01-09 βœ… Patent 11,870,818 granted on 2024-01-09
US18175815
Electricity

Enforcing security policies in a zero trust security framework using a behavioral score

#42 | 2023-12-21 βœ… Patent 11,838,327 granted on 2023-12-05
US20230412644A1
Electricity

Cloud-based security service that includes external evaluation for accessing a third-party application

#43 | 2023-10-26 βœ… Patent 12,093,429 granted on 2024-09-17
US20230342500A1
Physics

Remoting application across a network using draw commands with an isolator application

#44 | 2023-10-19 βœ… Patent 12,455,936 granted on 2025-10-28
US20230334111A1
Physics

APPLICATION REMOTING ACROSS A NETWORK USING DRAW COMMANDS

#45 | 2023-10-17 βœ… Patent 11,792,162 granted on 2023-10-17
US18161719
Electricity

Machine learning based web application firewall

#46 | 2023-10-12 βœ… Patent 12,107,768 granted on 2024-10-01
US20230328001A1
Electricity

Method and system for determining a path maximum transmission unit (MTU) between endpoints of a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel

#47 | 2023-10-12 βœ… Patent 11,949,776 granted on 2024-04-02
US20230327858A1
Electricity

Establishing a cryptographic tunnel between a first tunnel endpoint and a second tunnel endpoint where a private key used during the tunnel establishment is remotely located from the second tunnel endpoint

#48 | 2023-10-12 βœ… Patent 12,323,395 granted on 2025-06-03
US20230325459A1
Physics

Methods and apparatuses for providing internet-based proxy services

#49 | 2023-09-28 βœ… Patent 12,107,827 granted on 2024-10-01
US20230308415A1
Electricity

Unified network service that connects multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices operating on separate networks

#50 | 2023-09-21 βœ… Patent 11,870,797 granted on 2024-01-09
US20230300158A1
Electricity

Isolating internet-of-things (IoT) devices using a secure overlay network

#51 | 2023-09-12 βœ… Patent 11,755,381 granted on 2023-09-12
US18166400
Physics

Dynamic selection of where to execute application code in a distributed cloud computing network

#52 | 2023-08-03 βœ… Patent 12,457,097 granted on 2025-10-28
US20230246816A1
Electricity

ZERO TRUST AUTHENTICATION

#53 | 2023-07-13 βœ… Patent 11,991,157 granted on 2024-05-21
US20230224290A1
Electricity

Secure session capability using public-key cryptography without access to the private key

#54 | 2023-07-13 βœ… Patent 11,949,641 granted on 2024-04-02
US20230224267A1
Electricity

Verification of selected inbound electronic mail messages

#55 | 2023-06-22 βœ… Patent 11,909,808 granted on 2024-02-20
US20230199055A1
Electricity

Non-HTTP layer 7 protocol applications running in the browser

#56 | 2023-06-08 βœ… Patent 12,026,272 granted on 2024-07-02
US20230177200A1
Physics

Loading and managing third-party tools on a website

#57 | 2023-06-01 βœ… Patent 12,047,414 granted on 2024-07-23
US20230171288A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for distributed emulation of behavior of a malicious domain

#58 | 2023-05-25 βœ… Patent 11,863,448 granted on 2024-01-02
US20230164077A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for traffic optimization in virtual private networks (VPNs)

#59 | 2023-05-23 βœ… Patent 11,658,812 granted on 2023-05-23
US17956689
Electricity

Distributed key management system

#60 | 2023-05-18 βœ… Patent 12,306,943 granted on 2025-05-20
US20230153434A1
Physics

Machine learning-based malicious attachment detector

#61 | 2023-05-04 βœ… Patent 11,853,776 granted on 2023-12-26
US20230138161A1
Physics

Cloud computing platform that executes third-party code in a distributed cloud computing network

#62 | 2023-05-04 βœ… Patent 11,895,009 granted on 2024-02-06
US20230134974A1
Electricity

Intelligently routing internet traffic

#63 | 2023-04-20 βœ… Patent 11,894,947 granted on 2024-02-06
US20230124628A1
Electricity

Network layer performance and security provided by a distributed cloud computing network

#64 | 2023-04-20 βœ… Patent 11,729,083 granted on 2023-08-15
US20230117875A1
Electricity

Implementing a tiered cache topology with anycast networks

#65 | 2023-04-13 βœ… Patent 11,888,851 granted on 2024-01-30
US20230110111A1
Electricity

Identity proxy and access gateway

#66 | 2023-03-23 βœ… Patent 12,028,434 granted on 2024-07-02
US20230088115A1
Electricity

Generating early hints informational responses at an intermediary server

#67 | 2023-03-23 βœ… Patent 11,895,149 granted on 2024-02-06
US20230087129A1
Electricity

Selective traffic processing in a distributed cloud computing network

#68 | 2023-03-16 βœ… Patent 11,979,373 granted on 2024-05-07
US20230083295A1
Electricity

Protecting internet of things (IoT) devices at the network level

#69 | 2023-03-16 βœ… Patent 11,729,093 granted on 2023-08-15
US20230077576A1
Electricity

Mobile accelerator

#70 | 2023-03-09 βœ… Patent 12,101,295 granted on 2024-09-24
US20230074300A1
Electricity

Internet protocol security (IPSec) tunnel using anycast at a distributed cloud computing network

#71 | 2023-03-09 βœ… Patent 11,882,149 granted on 2024-01-23
US20230073959A1
Electricity

Responding to search requests based on referrer

#72 | 2023-02-23 βœ… Patent 12,335,158 granted on 2025-06-17
US20230056734A1
Electricity

MODIFYING THE CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHM APPLIED TO A CONNECTION BASED ON REQUEST CHARACTERISTICS

#73 | 2023-02-16 βœ… Patent 11,863,655 granted on 2024-01-02
US20230052895A1
Electricity

Method and system for reliable application layer data transmission through unreliable transport layer connections in a network

#74 | 2023-02-16 βœ… Patent 11,831,607 granted on 2023-11-28
US20230045949A1
Electricity

Secure private traffic exchange in a unified network service

#75 | 2023-02-09 βœ… Patent 11,949,647 granted on 2024-04-02
US20230045757A1
Electricity

Establishing and using a tunnel from an origin server in a distributed edge compute and routing service

#76 | 2023-02-09 βœ… Patent 12,120,590 granted on 2024-10-15
US20230041645A1
Electricity

Mobile application accelerator

#77 | 2023-02-09 βœ… Patent 11,861,420 granted on 2024-01-02
US20230039929A1
Physics

Concurrency control in an asynchronous event-loop based program environment

#78 | 2023-01-26 βœ… Patent 11,818,209 granted on 2023-11-14
US20230028120A1
Electricity

State management and object storage in a distributed cloud computing network

#79 | 2023-01-26 βœ… Patent 11,743,319 granted on 2023-08-29
US20230027013A1
Electricity

Implementing a queuing system in a distributed network

#80 | 2023-01-24 βœ… Patent 11,562,092 granted on 2023-01-24
US17706361
Physics

Loading and managing third-party tools on a website

#81 | 2023-01-19 βœ… Patent 11,799,827 granted on 2023-10-24
US20230019293A1
Electricity

Intelligently routing a response packet along a same connection as a request packet

#82 | 2023-01-17 βœ… Patent 11,556,644 granted on 2023-01-17
US16231838
Physics

Machine learning-based malicious attachment detector

#83 | 2022-12-29 βœ… Patent 11,855,958 granted on 2023-12-26
US20220417211A1
Electricity

Selection of an egress IP address for egress traffic of a distributed cloud computing network

#84 | 2022-12-15 βœ… Patent 11,882,199 granted on 2024-01-23
US20220400166A1
Electricity

Virtual private network (VPN) whose traffic is intelligently routed

#85 | 2022-12-08 βœ… Patent 11,503,104 granted on 2022-11-15
US20220394079A1
Electricity

Implementing a queuing system in a distributed network

#86 | 2022-10-20 βœ… Patent 11,489,909 granted on 2022-11-01
US20220337654A1
Electricity

Non-HTTP layer 7 protocol applications running in the browser

#87 | 2022-10-20 βœ… Patent 12,166,800 granted on 2024-12-10
US20220337630A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus of automatic generation of a content security policy for a network resource

#88 | 2022-10-11 βœ… Patent 11,470,104 granted on 2022-10-11
US17698836
Electricity

Isolating internet-of-things (IoT) devices using a secure overlay network

#89 | 2022-10-06 βœ… Patent 12,206,789 granted on 2025-01-21
US20220321354A1
Electricity

Using a zero-knowledge proof to prove knowledge that a website visitor is a legitimate human user

#90 | 2022-09-22 βœ… Patent 11,677,717 granted on 2023-06-13
US20220303244A1
Electricity

Unified network service that connects multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices operating on separate networks

#91 | 2022-09-22 βœ… Patent 11,651,099 granted on 2023-05-16
US20220300637A1
Physics

Persisting encrypted remote browser data at a local browser for use in a remote browser

#92 | 2022-09-08 βœ… Patent 11,438,302 granted on 2022-09-06
US20220286424A1
Electricity

Selection of an egress IP address for egress traffic of a distributed cloud computing network

#93 | 2022-07-26 βœ… Patent 11,399,035 granted on 2022-07-26
US16431180
Electricity

Deep learning-based detection of phishing links

#94 | 2022-07-21 βœ… Patent 11,861,563 granted on 2024-01-02
US20220230142A1
Physics

Business email compromise detection system

#95 | 2022-07-19 βœ… Patent 11,394,710 granted on 2022-07-19
US17500159
Electricity

Identity proxy and access gateway

#96 | 2022-07-07 βœ… Patent 11,818,167 granted on 2023-11-14
US20220217176A1
Electricity

Authoritative domain name system (DNS) server responding to DNS requests with IP addresses selected from a larger pool of IP addresses

#97 | 2022-06-09 βœ… Patent 12,034,805 granted on 2024-07-09
US20220182448A1
Electricity

State management and storage with policy enforcement in a distributed cloud computing network

#98 | 2022-05-26 βœ… Patent 11,647,031 granted on 2023-05-09
US20220166786A1
Electricity

Determining an origin server is potentially compromised

#99 | 2022-05-26 βœ… Patent 11,675,872 granted on 2023-06-13
US20220164400A1
Physics

Methods and apparatuses for providing internet-based proxy services

#100 | 2022-05-03 βœ… Patent 11,323,537 granted on 2022-05-03
US17476262
Electricity

Generating early hints informational responses at an intermediary server

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