McAfee, Inc.
San Jose, CA, US· latest recorded location
McAfee, Inc. is named on 1,633 US grants and 1,240 published applications in this corpus. Its most frequent classification is H04L (Digital communication).
- Granted patents
- 1,633
- Published applications
- 1,240
- Inventors
- 1,208
- Granted in 2026 so far
- 18
- Most recent grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 0 | 9 |
| 2003 | 0 | 49 |
| 2004 | 0 | 8 |
| 2005 | 9 | 12 |
| 2006 | 65 | 13 |
| 2007 | 52 | 9 |
| 2008 | 29 | 7 |
| 2009 | 31 | 6 |
| 2010 | 64 | 8 |
| 2011 | 62 | 38 |
| 2012 | 82 | 52 |
| 2013 | 174 | 98 |
| 2014 | 151 | 86 |
| 2015 | 85 | 82 |
| 2016 | 83 | 152 |
| 2017 | 104 | 115 |
| 2018 | 108 | 69 |
| 2019 | 104 | 75 |
| 2020 | 101 | 94 |
| 2021 | 79 | 107 |
| 2022 | 82 | 51 |
| 2023 | 62 | 24 |
| 2024 | 55 | 40 |
| 2025 | 33 | 20 |
| 2026 | 18 | 16 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Technology areas
Share of 2,873 documents
- H04LDigital communication1,985
- G06FComputing and data processing1,961
- H04WWireless communication networks332
- G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial177
- G06NAI and machine learning163
- G06TImage data processing or generation, in general38
- G06VImage and video recognition38
- H04MTelephonic communication36
- H04NPictorial communication27
- Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests20
Recent patents
- Website classification via containment queries8 Sep 2026US 12,732,479 B2
- Entity policy contexts for secure DNS resolution1 Sep 2026US 12,726,520 B2
- Targeted clustering using meta-buckets25 Aug 2026US 12,717,879 B2
- Methods and apparatus to translate hash-based signature signals for machine learning applications25 Aug 2026US 12,717,969 B2
- Apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for suppression of false positive malware detection28 Jul 2026US 12,694,111 B2
- Methods and apparatus to perform deepfake detection based on audio characteristics1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301760 A1
- Methods and apparatus to augment classification coverage for low prevalence samples through neighborhood labels proximity vectors24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288961 A1
- Methods and apparatus to self-guardrail large language model responses10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268098 A1
- Methods and apparatus to improve the efficiency of an artificial intelligence-based threat detection model10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270299 A1
- Methods and apparatus for voice transformation, authentication, and metadata communication30 Jul 2026US 2026/0222406 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Delayed-delivery quarantining of network communications having suspicious contents437US 7,080,408 B12006
- Mobile data security system and methods336US 8,495,700 B22013
- System and method for automated policy audit and remediation management332US 9,094,434 B22015
- Network intrusion detection and analysis system and method326US 7,493,659 B12009
- Automated Internet Relay Chat malware monitoring and interception320US 7,069,316 B12006