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Erik Shipton — 31 Patents

Meta: 24 patents #196 of 6,845Top 3%
KYKymeta: 3 patents #40 of 118Top 35%
Merck: 1 patents #5,440 of 9,382Top 60%
Kirkland, WA: #149 of 3,517 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #2,479 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Erik Shipton has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Meta. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in October 2025. Erik Shipton ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Erik Shipton in Kirkland, WA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12443048 Metalens collimators and condensers Gregory Kress, Abdoulaye Ndao 2025-10-14
11933940 Materials for metalenses, through-waveguide reflective metasurface couplers, and other metasurfaces Gregory Kress, Heydar Honarvar Nazari, Arindom Datta, Abdoulaye Ndao 2024-03-19
11874476 Metalens collimators and condensers Gregory Kress, Abdoulaye Ndao 2024-01-16
11777054 Light-emitting diode with hyperbolic metamaterial Tanya Malhotra 2023-10-03 $495,720,000
11681194 Magnetic field driven liquid crystal patterning control system Oleg Yaroshchuk 2023-06-20 $430,698,000
11609424 Apodized reflective optical elements for eye-tracking and optical artifact reduction Gregory Olegovic Andreev, Gang Li, Yingfei Jiang, Wanli Chi, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2023-03-21 $327,247,000
11594672 Spatially addressable nanovoided polymers Tanya Malhotra, Kenneth Diest, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Robin Sharma, Barry D. Silverstein +3 more 2023-02-28 $314,122,000
11570413 Variable-pitch liquid crystal diffraction grating Alireza Moheghi, Giuseppe Calafiore, Hee Yoon Lee 2023-01-31 $180,430,000
11569584 Directional coupler feed for flat panel antennas Benjamin Sikes, David Levesque, Mohsen Sazegar, Ryan Stevenson, Chris Eylander 2023-01-31
11469347 Light-emitting diode with hyperbolic metamaterial Tanya Malhotra 2022-10-11 $113,464,000
11274252 Mixed left/right chiral liquid crystal for improved switching speed and tunability for RF devices Philip W. Sullivan, Sebastian Gauza 2022-03-15 $190,727,000
11249242 High refractive index gratings for waveguide displays manufactured by self-aligned stacked process Matthew E. Colburn, Giuseppe Calafiore, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Pasi Saarikko 2022-02-15 $168,891,000
11249365 Magnetic field driven liquid crystal patterning control system Oleg Yaroshchuk 2022-02-15 $168,891,000
11233189 Nanovoided tunable birefringence Kenneth Diest, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Gregory Olegovic Andreev, Tanya Malhotra, Barry D. Silverstein +1 more 2022-01-25 $112,076,000
11221490 Rainbow reduction for waveguide displays Giuseppe Calafiore, Pasi Saarikko 2022-01-11 $279,042,000
11137655 Resonant liquid crystal devices Maxwell Parsons, Shane Colburn, Yingfei Jiang, Andrew Maimone, Guohua Wei +1 more 2021-10-05 $199,710,000
11107972 Nanovoided tunable optics Kenneth Diest, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Robin Sharma, Tanya Malhotra, Barry D. Silverstein +2 more 2021-08-31 $260,818,000
11073697 Switchable electroactive devices for head-mounted displays Robin Sharma, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Tanya Malhotra, Kenneth Diest, Gregory Olegovic Andreev +2 more 2021-07-27 $302,819,000
11067821 Apodized optical elements for optical artifact reduction Gregory Olegovic Andreev, Gang Li, Yingfei Jiang, Wanli Chi, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2021-07-20 $228,067,000
10991858 Light-emitting diode with light extracting structure Tanya Malhotra 2021-04-27 $213,558,000
10914954 Rainbow reduction for waveguide displays Giuseppe Calafiore, Pasi Saarikko 2021-02-09 $154,266,000
10896994 Light-emitting diode with hyperbolic metamaterial Tanya Malhotra 2021-01-19 $234,058,000
10877214 Diffraction gratings for beam redirection Bharath Bangalore Rajeeva 2020-12-29 $127,011,000
10845537 Optical waveguides having diffraction gratings for beam redirection Bharath Bangalore Rajeeva 2020-11-24 $138,610,000
10845538 Diffraction gratings for beam redirection Bharath Bangalore Rajeeva 2020-11-24 $138,610,000