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Kenneth Diest — 41 Patents

Meta: 33 patents #104 of 6,845Top 2%
HP: 4 patents #4,645 of 16,619Top 30%
Caltech: 2 patents #1,302 of 4,321Top 35%
MIT: 1 patents #4,386 of 9,367Top 50%
Northrop Grumman: 1 patents #1,512 of 1,695Top 90%
Kirkland, WA: #98 of 3,517 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #1,578 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Kenneth Diest has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at Meta. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in September 2025. Kenneth Diest ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Kenneth Diest in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12421939 Actuator for generating compound curvature Andrew John Ouderkirk, Spencer Allan Wells, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Christopher Stipe, Robin Sharma +3 more 2025-09-23
12399344 Active defocus for display assembly Abhishek Dhanda, Honghong Peng 2025-08-26
12270988 Deformable lens with an extended range of stability Andrew John Ouderkirk, Nagi Hosni Elabbasi, Christopher Stipe, Spencer Allan Wells, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao +4 more 2025-04-08
12270989 Stiffening structures for micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) micromirrors Katherine Marie Smyth, Daniel Guenther Greif 2025-04-08
12092844 Liquid lens with gravity sag correction Andrew John Ouderkirk, Nagi Hosni Elabbasi, Spencer Allan Wells, Christopher Stipe, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao +4 more 2024-09-17 $633,592,000
11953702 Nanovoided graded-index optical elements, optical arrays, and methods of forming the same Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig 2024-04-09 $740,025,000
11889763 Actuator with variable cylinder Andrew John Ouderkirk, Spencer Allan Wells, Christopher Stipe, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao, Nagi Hosni Elabbasi +4 more 2024-01-30 $419,058,000
11867973 High reliability varifocal electrostatic lens Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Christopher Stipe, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Maik Andre Scheller, Sheng Ye +4 more 2024-01-09 $312,289,000
11856860 Extruded multilayer with electrodes Spencer Allan Wells, Wenhao Li, Sheng Ye, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2023-12-26 $348,577,000
11740391 Fluid lens operational feedback using sensor signal Jonathan R. Peterson, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Liliana Ruiz Diaz, Robin Sharma 2023-08-29 $254,903,000
11632063 Structured actuators Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Sheng Ye 2023-04-18 $340,225,000
11619280 Nanovoided polymer for hybrid adaptive vibration control Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2023-04-04 $327,324,000
11594672 Spatially addressable nanovoided polymers Tanya Malhotra, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Robin Sharma, Barry D. Silverstein, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao +3 more 2023-02-28 $314,122,000
11563137 Optical transformer Maik Andre Scheller, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Jonathan R. Peterson, Daniele Piazza, Jeremy Thomas Braun +4 more 2023-01-24 $131,221,000
11513259 Gas-soluble nanovoided polymers Sheng Ye, Spencer Allan Wells, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig 2022-11-29 $189,601,000
11502240 Structured actuators: shaped electroactive polymers Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Katherine Marie Smyth, Spencer Allan Wells, Tingling Rao +4 more 2022-11-15 $305,609,000
11467669 Operational feedback using capacitive sensing Tianshu Liu, Jonathan R. Peterson, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Daniele Piazza, Yigit Menguc +1 more 2022-10-11 $113,464,000
11448798 Nanovoided graded-index optical elements, optical arrays, and methods of forming the same Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig 2022-09-20 $158,917,000
11407211 Fabrication of shaped voids Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Sheng Ye, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2022-08-09 $150,053,000
11409143 Multiple layers between electrodes including nanovoided polymer Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2022-08-09 $150,053,000
11396586 Polymer materials including coated nanovoids and methods and systems for forming the same Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Spencer Allan Wells, Katherine Marie Smyth 2022-07-26 $232,308,000
11296274 Nanovoided polymers having shaped voids Andrew Spann, Eric Schmitt, Nagi Hosni Elabbasi, Katherine Marie Smyth, Renate Eva Klementine Landig +1 more 2022-04-05 $236,387,000
11256331 Apparatuses, systems, and methods including haptic and touch sensing electroactive device arrays Andrew John Ouderkirk, Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Katherine Marie Smyth, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao, Jack Lindsay 2022-02-22 $155,126,000
11233189 Nanovoided tunable birefringence Andrew John Ouderkirk, Gregory Olegovic Andreev, Erik Shipton, Tanya Malhotra, Barry D. Silverstein +1 more 2022-01-25 $112,076,000
11189258 Nanovoided polymer for tunable acoustic damping Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Andrew John Ouderkirk 2021-11-30 $276,458,000