Eric Whitmire — 12 Patents at Meta

Eric Whitmire has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Meta. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in December 2025. Eric Whitmire ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Eric Whitmire in Redmond, WA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12498792	Systems for detecting gestures performed within activation-threshold distances of artificial-reality objects to cause operations at physical electronic devices, and methods of use thereof	Rajinder Sodhi, Andre Levi, Austin Lee, Szeyin Lee	2025-12-16
12468393	Systems for detecting in-air and surface gestures available for use in an artificial-reality environment using sensors at a wrist-wearable device, and methods of use thereof	Rajinder Sodhi, Andre Levi, Austin Lee	2025-11-11
11531389	Systems and methods for electric discharge-based sensing via wearables donned by users of artificial reality systems	Wolf Kienzle, David R. Perek, Hrvoje Benko	2022-12-20	$296,059,000
11506888	Driver gaze tracking system for use in vehicles	Kaan Aksit, Michael Stengel, Jan Kautz, David Patrick Luebke, Ben Boudaoud	2022-11-22	$615,333,000
11175731	Apparatus, system, and method for directional acoustic sensing via wearables donned by users of artificial reality systems	Wolf Kienzle, David R. Perek, Hrvoje Benko	2021-11-16	$218,201,000
11150737	Apparatus, system, and method for wrist tracking and gesture detection via time of flight sensors	Farshid Salemi Parizi, Wolf Kienzle	2021-10-19	$213,134,000
10948976	Systems and methods for electric discharge-based sensing via wearables donned by users of artificial reality systems	Wolf Kienzle, David R. Perek, Hrvoje Benko	2021-03-16	$190,072,000
10928889	Apparatus, system, and method for directional acoustic sensing via wearables donned by users of artificial reality systems	Wolf Kienzle, David R. Perek, Hrvoje Benko	2021-02-23	$146,361,000
10838492	Gaze tracking system for use in head mounted displays	Kaan Aksit, Michael Stengel, Jan Kautz, David Patrick Luebke, Ben Boudaoud	2020-11-17	$1,011,857,000
10665243	Subvocalized speech recognition	Laura Cristina Trutoiu	2020-05-26	$99,288,000
10617942	Controller with haptic feedback	Christian Holz, Eyal Ofek, Michael J. Sinclair, Hrvoje Benko, Inrak Choi	2020-04-14	$125,652,000
10426338	Scleral coil eye tracking system	Robert Dale Cavin, Brian Michael Scally, Laura Cristina Trutoiu	2019-10-01	$86,002,000

Eric Whitmire — 12 Patents

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