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Wayne Kao — 26 Patents

Meta: 25 patents #190 of 6,883Top 3%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Mountain View, CA: #746 of 11,022 inventorsTop 7%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Wayne Kao has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Meta. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in December 2020. Wayne Kao ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Wayne Kao in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2016.peak 82009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 8 patents20162017: 3 patents20172018: 4 patents20182019: 4 patents20192020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10863354 Automated check-ins Gregory Paul Whalin, Tal Shumski 2020-12-08 $163,159,000
10447632 Filtering notifications from a third party application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user Ken Deeter, Bo Zhang, Charles Jolley 2019-10-15 $120,174,000
10397162 Sending notifications to members of social group in a social networking system Ken Deeter, Andy Lien, Sizhe Chen, Eugene Letuchy 2019-08-27 $105,059,000
10397346 Prefetching places Tal Shumski 2019-08-27 $105,059,000
10346499 Personalized bookmarks for social networking system actions based on user activity Bo Zhang, Francis Luu, Ming Hua 2019-07-09 $119,913,000
10147147 Determining and providing feedback about communications from an application on a social networking platform Alex Himel, Gabriel Levi, Carl Philip Sjogreen 2018-12-04 $121,905,000
10057359 Location suggestion based upon social networking post content Gregory Paul Whalin, Jan Kodovsky 2018-08-21 $151,837,000
10042952 Display showing intersection between users of a social networking system 2018-08-07 $248,848,000
10019765 Determining and providing feedback about communications from an application on a social networking platform Alex Himel, Gabriel Levi, Carl Philip Sjogreen 2018-07-10 $172,274,000
9584606 Location suggestion based upon social networking post content Gregory Paul Whalin, Jan Kodovsky 2017-02-28 $100,390,000
9582786 News feed ranking model based on social information of viewer Max Gubin, David Vickrey, Alexey Maykov 2017-02-28 $100,390,000
9569553 Personalized bookmarks for social networking system actions based on user activity Bo Zhang, Francis Luu, Ming Hua 2017-02-14 $96,877,000
9491251 Transmission of notifications to multiple devices associated with a user Ken Deeter 2016-11-08 $173,704,000
9390184 Search and retrieval of objects in a social networking system Akhil Wable, Luke Andrew DeLorme, Alexandre Roche, Thomas Occhino 2016-07-12 $153,049,000
9391944 Suggesting opt-out of notifications to users of a social networking system Ken Deeter, Charles Jolley, Bo Zhang, Andrew Yaoshu Song 2016-07-12 $153,049,000
9342612 Personalized bookmarks for social networking system actions based on user activity Bo Zhang, Francis Luu, Ming Hua 2016-05-17 $109,989,000
9306888 Filtering notifications from a third party application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user Ken Deeter, Bo Zhang, Charles Jolley 2016-04-05 $152,087,000
9286575 Adaptive ranking of news feed in social networking systems Max Gubin, David Vickrey, Alexey Maykov 2016-03-15 $388,131,000
9256674 Action clustering for news feeds Daniel Schafer, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman 2016-02-09 $304,111,000
9235863 Display showing intersection between users of a social networking system 2016-01-12 $140,080,000
9043301 Search and retrieval of objects in a social networking system Akhil Wable, Luke Andrew DeLorme, Alexandre Roche, Thomas Occhino 2015-05-26 $76,196,000
8768863 Adaptive ranking of news feed in social networking systems Max Gubin, David Vickrey, Alexey Maykov 2014-07-01 $104,698,000
8700636 Action clustering for news feeds Daniel Schafer, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman 2014-04-15 $320,564,000
8407200 Search and retrieval of objects in a social networking system Akhil Wable, Luke Andrew DeLorme, Alexandre Roche, Thomas Occhino 2013-03-26 $150,395,000
8239364 Search and retrieval of objects in a social networking system Akhil Wable, Luke Andrew DeLorme, Alexandre Roche, Thomas Occhino 2012-08-07 $240,026,000