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Brian Wheelwright — 126 Patents

Meta: 119 patents #8 of 6,845Top 1%
UAUniversity Of Arizona: 2 patents #250 of 1,318Top 20%
SASharp Laboratories Of America: 2 patents #234 of 419Top 60%
Sammamish, WA: #6 of 2,558 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #159 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,987 of 4,157,543Top 1%
126 Patents All Time
Brian Wheelwright has been granted 126 US patents while listed as an inventor at Meta. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in November 2025. Brian Wheelwright ranks #8,987 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.22%). Patent records list Brian Wheelwright in Sammamish, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 126 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12474581 Free-form light field displays for VR/AR headsets Ying Geng, Kieran Connor Kelly 2025-11-18
12411345 Vector scanning augment reality Brandon Michael Hellman Friedman 2025-09-09
12345888 Optical assembly with polarization volume holographic element Jacques Gollier, Scott Charles McEldowney, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Babak Amirsolaimani, Ying Geng 2025-07-01
12332442 High efficiency optical assembly with folded optical path Gang Li, Andrew Maimone, Yang Zhao, Ying Geng, Douglas Robert Lanman 2025-06-17
12259553 Geometrical waveguide illuminator and display based thereon Miaomiao Xu, Fenglin Peng, Ying Geng, Changwon Jang, Maxwell Parsons +2 more 2025-03-25
12166955 Reverse pass-through glasses for augmented reality and virtual reality devices Nathan Matsuda, Joel Hegland 2024-12-10 $1,808,949,000
12095975 Reverse pass-through glasses for augmented reality and virtual reality devices Nathan Matsuda, Joel Hegland, Stephen Anthony Lombardi, Jason Saragih, Tomas Simon Kreuz +4 more 2024-09-17 $633,592,000
12001030 Shadow-matched Fresnel lens doublet for reduced optical artifacts Jacques Gollier 2024-06-04 $1,031,186,000
11960090 Curved see-through pancake lens assembly and display device including the same Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier, Babak Amirsolaimani, Weichuan Gao, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai 2024-04-16 $661,629,000
11960088 Waveguide configurations in a head-mounted display (HMD) for improved field of view (FOV) Miaomiao Xu, Ying Geng 2024-04-16 $661,629,000
11852814 Display device with holographic diffuser display and see-through lens assembly Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Gang Li, Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier, Babak Amirsolaimani +1 more 2023-12-26 $348,577,000
11846779 Display device with varifocal optical assembly Afsoon Jamali, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Lu Lu, Douglas Robert Lanman 2023-12-19 $443,088,000
11846797 Optical waveguide beam splitter with reflective polarizers for display Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Babak Amirsolaimani, Fenglin Peng 2023-12-19 $443,088,000
11789280 Peripheral light field display Kieran Connor Kelly, Ying Geng 2023-10-17 $773,426,000
11774737 Folded-beam, low-obliquity beam scanner Daniel Guenther Greif, Kieran Connor Kelly 2023-10-03 $495,720,000
11768330 Light guide combiner with increased field of view (FOV) and eyebox efficiency for enhanced reality applications Miaomiao Xu, Ying Geng 2023-09-26 $1,062,931,000
11740473 Flexible displays for VR/AR headsets Ying Geng, Kieran Connor Kelly 2023-08-29 $254,903,000
11736679 Reverse pass-through glasses for augmented reality and virtual reality devices Nathan Matsuda, Joel Hegland 2023-08-22 $320,369,000
11714287 Head-mounted display device with a flip-up display Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Weichuan Gao, Kieran Connor Kelly +1 more 2023-08-01 $525,422,000
11698538 Multipass scanner for near-eye display Weichuan Gao, Babak Amirsolaimani, Ying Geng 2023-07-11 $594,919,000
11675206 Display with a resolution enhanced region Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Fenglin Peng 2023-06-13 $261,054,000
11668929 Achromatic optical lens assembly having Pancharatnam Berry Phase lens Babak Amirsolaimani, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Weichuan Gao, Fenglin Peng, Ying Geng 2023-06-06 $222,721,000
11668866 Split prism illuminator for spatial light modulator Andrew John Ouderkirk, Tanya Malhotra, Weichuan Gao, Ying Geng 2023-06-06 $222,721,000
11624922 Optical assemblies having polarization volume gratings for projecting augmented reality content Yun-Han Lee, Babak Amirsolaimani, Weichuan Gao 2023-04-11 $327,732,000
11619817 Pancake lenses using Fresnel surfaces Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2023-04-04 $327,324,000