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William Thomas Blank — 43 Patents

Meta: 23 patents #209 of 6,883Top 4%
Microsoft: 17 patents #2,212 of 40,388Top 6%
MCMaspar Computer: 2 patents #5 of 14Top 40%
Stanford University: 1 patents #2,423 of 222Top 1095%
Bellevue, WA: #217 of 6,950 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #1,464 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
William Thomas Blank has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at Meta. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in October 2025. William Thomas Blank ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list William Thomas Blank in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2021.peak 121990: 1 patents19901993: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19962005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 2 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 12 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 4 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12449661 Artificial reality systems including digital and analog control of pixel intensity Ilias Pappas, Ramakrishna Chilukuri, Michael Yee 2025-10-21
12267620 Interactive and shared surfaces Sasa Junuzovic, Bruce A. Cleary, III, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson 2025-04-01
11798471 Control scheme for a scanning display Ilias Pappas 2023-10-24 $368,956,000
11778151 Real-time mapping of projections onto moving 3D objects Sasa Junuzovic, Steven Bathiche, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson 2023-10-03 $205,636,000
11743435 Multi-projector display architecture Larry Seiler, Warren Andrew Hunt, Michael Yee 2023-08-29 $254,903,000
11567325 Artificial reality systems including digital and analog control of pixel intensity Ilias Pappas, Ramakrishna Chilukuri, Michael Yee 2023-01-31 $180,430,000
11509861 Interactive and shared surfaces Sasa Junuzovic, Bruce A. Cleary, III, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson 2022-11-22 $216,625,000
11430384 Control scheme for a scanning display Ilias Pappas 2022-08-30 $158,768,000
11265980 Devices having dedicated light emitting diodes for performance characterization Michael Yee, Ramakrishna Chilukuri, Ilias Pappas 2022-03-01 $190,394,000
11257407 Display diagnostic system Ilias Pappas, Michael Yee, Ramakrishna Chilukuri 2022-02-22 $155,126,000
11190741 Real-time mapping of projections onto moving 3D objects Sasa Junuzovic, Steven Bathiche, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson 2021-11-30 $214,111,000
11176901 Pan-warping and modifying sub-frames with an up-sampled frame rate Warren Andrew Hunt, Ilias Pappas, Michael Yee, Edward Buckley 2021-11-16 $218,201,000
11151916 Data shifting circuit for a current mode display Ilias Pappas 2021-10-19 $213,134,000
11143693 Systems having dedicated light emitting diodes for performance characterization Michael Yee, Ramakrishna Chilukuri, Ilias Pappas 2021-10-12 $200,040,000
11070778 Multi-projector display architecture Larry Seiler, Warren Andrew Hunt, Michael Yee 2021-07-20 $228,067,000
11056037 Hybrid pulse width modulation for display device Edward Buckley, Larry Seiler 2021-07-06 $219,752,000
11011123 Pan-warping and modifying sub-frames with an up-sampled frame rate Warren Andrew Hunt, Ilias Pappas, Michael Yee, Edward Buckley 2021-05-18 $200,694,000
10971061 Control scheme for a scanning display Ilias Pappas 2021-04-06 $244,353,000
10964238 Display device testing and control Ilias Pappas 2021-03-30 $212,745,000
10951867 Light emitter architecture for scanning display device Ilias Pappas 2021-03-16 $190,072,000
10937348 Analog data shifter for a current mode display Ilias Pappas 2021-03-02 $204,816,000
10930188 Feedback circuit for calibrating a current mode display Ilias Pappas 2021-02-23 $146,361,000
10861380 Display systems with hybrid emitter circuits Mark A. Horowitz, Ilias Pappas, Edward Buckley 2020-12-08 $163,159,000
10861373 Reducing peak current usage in light emitting diode array Ilias Pappas, Michael Yee 2020-12-08 $163,159,000
10820397 Test architecture for light emitting diode arrays Ramakrishna Chilukuri, Salman Mazhar, Ilias Pappas, Michael Yee 2020-10-27 $182,510,000