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Nicholas Daniel Trail — 104 Patents

Meta: 96 patents #14 of 6,883Top 1%
RTX (Raytheon): 7 patents #1,728 of 15,912Top 15%
Bothell, WA: #4 of 2,342 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #253 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,407 of 4,157,543Top 1%
104 Patents All Time
Nicholas Daniel Trail has been granted 104 US patents while listed as an inventor at Meta. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in July 2025. Nicholas Daniel Trail ranks #13,407 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.32%). Patent records list Nicholas Daniel Trail in Bothell, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 25 patents in 2019.peak 252013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 11 patents20182019: 25 patents2020: 22 patents20202021: 21 patents2022: 5 patents20222023: 7 patents2024: 4 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 104 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12360443 Dynamic illumination control for depth determination Fengqiang Li, Zihe Gao, Michael Hall, Zhaoming Zhu, Shuochen Su +2 more 2025-07-15
12078803 Expanding field-of-view in direct projection augmented reality and virtual reality systems 2024-09-03 $759,980,000
11983318 Full field retinal imaging system for characterization of eye trackers Robin Sharma, Robert Dale Cavin, Kyle Justin Curts 2024-05-14 $861,369,000
11906750 Varifocal display with actuated reflectors 2024-02-20 $522,555,000
11863886 Pixel sensor having multiple photodiodes Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Xinqiao Liu, Song Chen, Michael Patrick Schaub 2024-01-02 $408,110,000
11817022 Correcting artifacts in tiled display assemblies for artificial reality headsets Byron Taylor, Yufeng Zhu, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Hee Yoon Lee, Sharvil Shailesh Talati +2 more 2023-11-14 $693,719,000
11733524 Depth camera assembly based on near infra-red illuminator Zhaoming Zhu 2023-08-22 $320,369,000
11723003 Latency reduction for artificial reality Qi Qu, Dong Zheng, Gang Lu, William Louis Abbott 2023-08-08 $398,658,000
11675199 Systems, devices, and methods for tiled multi-monochromatic displays James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine 2023-06-13 $261,054,000
11635807 Full field retinal imaging system for characterization of eye trackers Robin Sharma, Robert Dale Cavin, Kyle Justin Curts 2023-04-25 $238,797,000
11604351 Field bias optical element for digital projector Tamer Elazhary, Yang Zhao, Byron Taylor 2023-03-14 $288,151,000
11598965 Super-resolution scanning display for near-eye displays Byron Taylor 2023-03-07 $254,637,000
11493767 Systems, devices, and methods for tiled multi-monochromatic displays James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine 2022-11-08 $140,771,000
11463636 Pixel sensor having multiple photodiodes Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Xinqiao Liu, Song Chen, Michael Patrick Schaub 2022-10-04 $210,366,000
11430262 Eye tracking using optical coherence methods Robert Dale Cavin 2022-08-30 $158,768,000
11405913 Latency reduction for artificial reality Qi Qu, Dong Zheng, Gang Lu, William Louis Abbott 2022-08-02 $157,559,000
11231588 Systems, devices, and methods for tiled multi-monochromatic displays James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine 2022-01-25 $112,076,000
11209650 Waveguide based display with multiple coupling elements for artificial reality 2021-12-28 $231,290,000
11202043 Self-testing display device Tamer Elazhary, Brian Wheelwright, Weichuan Gao, Jacques Gollier, Barry D. Silverstein 2021-12-14 $249,666,000
11195291 Dynamic illumination control for depth determination Fengqiang Li, Zihe Gao, Michael Hall, Zhaoming Zhu, Shuochen Su +2 more 2021-12-07 $186,950,000
11175457 Systems and methods for aligning a light projector with a waveguide 2021-11-16 $218,201,000
11163165 Directed display architecture 2021-11-02 $325,779,000
11112607 Systems, apparatuses, and methods for monochromatic display waveguides Pasi Saarikko 2021-09-07 $252,428,000
11112608 Systems, apparatuses, and methods for image shifting in monochromatic display devices James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine 2021-09-07 $252,428,000
11106276 Focus adjusting headset Douglas Robert Lanman, Alexander Jobe Fix, Nathan Matsuda 2021-08-31 $260,818,000