INSIGHT 01Fact
49%
49% of applications are in Computer technology
723 applications in this field, 541 of them in IPC G06F (Data processing) — the main axis of the portfolio.
Method: Field applications ÷ applications with IPC
Company patentsSocial systems, AI and immersive computing
COMPANY PATENT INTELLIGENCE
Meta Patent Portfolio Analysis
Read selected Meta publications across Headset interfaces, Contextual assistants, Visual learning.
Partial name or date coverage · counts are lower boundsData as of 2026-10-29Data scope
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Source search matches
- 1,545
- Published 2025-01-01 — 2025-12-31 · Source Google Patents
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- FACEBOOK INC · META PLATFORMS INC · META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
- Publication dates collected
- Not recorded in this snapshot
- Reviewed names not covered
- FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES LLC · FACEBOOK, INC. · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES , LLC · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. · META PLATFORMS, INC. · OCULUS VR LLC
≥1,545docs
129 per month · peak 2025-03 (163)
Empty dashed outlines are uncollected periods, not zero. Dashed bars have partial name or date coverage.
Key findings
See evidence and limits- 01FactHeadset structures and content digests come from distinct entitiesThe headset example, displayed under Meta Platforms Technologies, concerns rigid support and flexible facial frames. The Meta Platforms digest example concerns requests, content objects and slides. The entities remain separate.
- 02FactThe vision pre-training example includes patch selectionThe masked-autoencoder snippet describes an encoder, decoder, image patches and subset selection. It does not fully show reconstruction objectives or experimental results, so performance is not inferred.
01Key figures
- Applications
- 1,503
- By application number; publication and grant count once
- Invention
- 1,463
- 97% of applications
- Utility model
- 0
- 0% of applications
- Patent families
- 1,239
- By the source family ID
- Green technology
- —
- The source has no CPC codes
- Concentration
- 0.43HHI
- Sum of squared field shares; higher is more concentrated
02Technology landscape
1,467 applications with IPC codes are mapped to 35 fields using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance; area is the number of applications. Select a tile to see its IPC subclasses. An application can belong to several fields.
- Electrical engineering
- Instruments
03Rhythm
Publications per month in each field; brighter cells mean more. It shows which directions surge in particular months.
This chart covers collected documents published from 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31. Examination and publication processes affect this timing; it does not directly measure R&D investment in the same period.
| Technology field | 25-01 | 25-02 | 25-03 | 25-04 | 25-05 | 25-06 | 25-07 | 25-08 | 25-09 | 25-10 | 25-11 | 25-12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer technology | 54 | 66 | 74 | 75 | 75 | 54 | 62 | 51 | 45 | 80 | 56 | 52 |
| Optics | 42 | 52 | 60 | 58 | 52 | 52 | 37 | 40 | 38 | 60 | 39 | 25 |
| Audio-visual technology | 23 | 23 | 14 | 28 | 25 | 24 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 24 | 24 | 20 |
| Digital communication | 18 | 18 | 25 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 17 | 27 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 12 |
| Telecommunications | 7 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | 3 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 |
| Measurement | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Semiconductors | 7 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Filing years of the collected applications
Documents in the current publication window are deduplicated by application number and grouped by filing year. These are not the company's complete annual filings; older applications may only be published or granted within this window.
- 20141
- 20153
- 20161
- 20174
- 201810
- 20195
- 202030
- 202177
- 2022221
- 2023387
- 2024483
- 2025281Publication lag may still apply
Invention applications are generally published about 18 months after filing, or priority where claimed, and may be published earlier. Flags are estimated as of 2026-10-29. An unflagged year is still not necessarily complete; these counts cannot establish growth or contraction in R&D.
Multi-year evolution · With a longer collection window, this becomes a yearly view that marks the fastest-growing and shrinking fields.
04Strategy profile
Four reproducible structural ratios, with the other published companies on the same scale. Entity scopes and windows can differ, so read relative positions only — this is not a ranking.
Concentration
0.430.000.94
Position 14 of 20 published companies.
Method: Sum of squared field shares
Utility model share
0%0%33%
Position 9 of 20 published companies.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
Green technology share
—The source has no CPC codes, so this cannot be computed.
Method: Documents with CPC Y02 ÷ documents with CPC
Manufacturing and inspection share
4.5%0%50%
Position 8 of 20 published companies.
Method: Applications in measurement, chemical engineering, handling and machine tools ÷ all applications
05Collaboration
Organisations that filed jointly with the collected entities; line weight represents joint applications. Name-based candidates and reviewed relationships are labeled separately. Co-applications alone do not prove ownership.
META PLATFORM TECH LLC4Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
FACEBOOK TECH LLC3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
MEAT PLATFORMS TECH LLC1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
MERCK PATENT GMBH1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
UNIV ARIZONA1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
WITHIN UNLIMITED LLC1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
Possible affiliation is a review lead only. Co-applicants without a review record are not automatically group members or external partners, and their independent filings are not added to these statistics.
Review the entity list06Entities and scope
Entity review and data coverage are separate facts. This list shows the current entity configuration, evidence and relationship dates, matched name by name against this snapshot.
Filters change only the entity list below, not the statistics. A complete group snapshot is not available to switch to on this page.
Showing 2 of 2 entities
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Primary entityVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- Meta Platforms Inc · Facebook Inc
- Names outside this snapshot
- Meta Platforms, Inc. · Facebook, Inc.
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
官方更名记录确认 Facebook Inc 与 Meta Platforms Inc；不与 Technologies 法人混并。
Review evidenceMeta Platforms Technologies, LLC
SubsidiaryVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
- Names outside this snapshot
- Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC · Meta Platforms Technologies LLC · Facebook Technologies LLC · Oculus VR LLC · Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc. · Meta Platforms Technologies , LLC
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
2025 全年 CMR 明确全资关系；与父公司更名链分开。US12372796B2 和 US12306976B2 的 BigQuery 标准名 META PLATFORMS TECH LLC、原始名称字段 Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc 与浏览器显示一致。该映射不推断当前权属。
Review evidenceRelationship dates help interpret renaming, acquisitions and joint ventures. Missing dates do not establish an indefinite relationship or verify the current patent owner.
07Observations
Written by editors after reading the patent texts and company materials. Verified facts and inferences are labeled, each with evidence and limits.
Technology themes and evidence
Select a theme to filter reviewed patents and observations that cite them. Counts are editorial samples only; one patent may belong to several themes. They do not describe the full portfolio distribution.
Themes describe the technical directions in these samples. Links to adoption in specific products, commercialization or commercial value have not been established.
Showing 3 sample patents · 2 linked observations
- 01
Verified fact
Headset structures and content digests come from distinct entities
The headset example, displayed under Meta Platforms Technologies, concerns rigid support and flexible facial frames. The Meta Platforms digest example concerns requests, content objects and slides. The entities remain separate.
Evidence
Limits
- Based on captured abstracts, without a completed claim review; not evidence of portfolio-wide distribution, current ownership or product adoption.
- 02
Verified fact
The vision pre-training example includes patch selection
The masked-autoencoder snippet describes an encoder, decoder, image patches and subset selection. It does not fully show reconstruction objectives or experimental results, so performance is not inferred.
Evidence
Limits
- Based on captured abstracts, without a completed claim review; not evidence of portfolio-wide distribution, current ownership or product adoption.
Reading samples
Hand-picked documents that illustrate technology themes — not a ranking of core patents and not representative of the whole.
US12372796B2
Facial interface assemblies for head-mounted displays and related systems and …
The snippet describes a headset interface with rigid support and flexible facial-interface frame elements, with the rigid element supporting the display. The title is an excerpt.
Bibliography and claim evidence
- Applicants
- Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc
- Application date
- 2023-09-26
- Publication date
- 2025-07-29
- English summary of cited claim evidence
- Verifiable claim evidence is not available. This reading uses only the abstract and other listed material; it does not establish the scope of protection.
- Legal status
- Legal status is unverified. The applicant name follows the search-result display and does not establish current ownership.
US12198413B2
Ephemeral content digests for assistant systems
The snippet describes an assistant receiving a request for a content digest, retrieving corresponding content objects and generating slides. The remaining organization steps are truncated.
Bibliography and claim evidence
- Applicants
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Application date
- 2021-04-09
- Publication date
- 2025-01-14
- English summary of cited claim evidence
- Verifiable claim evidence is not available. This reading uses only the abstract and other listed material; it does not establish the scope of protection.
- Legal status
- Legal status is unverified. The applicant name follows the search-result display and does not establish current ownership.
US12266160B2
Masked autoencoders for computer vision
The snippet describes image pre-training with an encoder-decoder model, partitioning images into patches and selecting a subset. The complete masking and reconstruction rule is not shown.
Bibliography and claim evidence
- Applicants
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Application date
- 2022-07-27
- Publication date
- 2025-04-01
- English summary of cited claim evidence
- Verifiable claim evidence is not available. This reading uses only the abstract and other listed material; it does not establish the scope of protection.
- Legal status
- Legal status is unverified. The applicant name follows the search-result display and does not establish current ownership.
08Publication jurisdictions
6 publication offices · 1,545 documents
Counts use the publication office of each collected document, retaining publications from the same family in different jurisdictions. This is not a map of complete families, granted or active rights; WO and EP denote international and European publication routes.
- USUnited States1,010
- EPEuropean Patent Office publication336
- WOPCT international publication193
- MXMexico3
- JPJapan2
- TWTaiwan1
09Documents
1,545 published documentsNewest first
- EP4336246B1
Invention grant
2025-12-31Apparatuses, systems, and methods for aligning display projector assemblies included in head-mounted displays
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Optics
- EP4670153A1
Invention publication
2025-12-31Speech reconstruction system for multimedia files
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Computer technology
- EP4670365A1
Invention publication
2025-12-31Force canceling speaker
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technology
- EP4671941A2
Invention publication
2025-12-31Multi-stage gestures detected based on neuromuscular-signal sensors of a wearable device to activate user-interface interactions with low-false positive rates, and systems and methods of use thereof
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Computer technology
- EP4672208A1
Invention publication
2025-12-31Gate circuit for driving foveated displays
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technology
- EP4672219A2
Invention publication
2025-12-31Techniques for grouped gate scanning in foveated displays
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technology
- EP4672221A1
Invention publication
2025-12-31Voltage adjustment based mura reduction in digital content
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technology
- US12510704B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Waveguide with birefringent organic solid crystal layer
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energyOptics
- US12510926B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Pass-through ratcheting mechanism
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Computer technologyMechanical elementsOther consumer goods
- US12510960B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Frame tracking system for a head-mounted device
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Computer technology
- US12511560B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for generating synthetic data
META PLATFORMS INC
Computer technology
- US12511819B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Neural view synthesis using tiled multiplane images
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Computer technology
- US12512027B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Contrast ratio adjustment in multi-application augmented reality environment
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technologyOptics
- US12512649B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Systems for installing fiber optic cable about a powerline conductor
META PLATFORMS INC
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energyOptics
- US12513102B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Simulation of a user of a social networking system using a language model
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Digital communicationComputer technology
- US12513486B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Head-related transfer function determination using reflected ultrasonic signal
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technologyComputer technology
- US12513564B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Systems and methods of wireless triggering buffer status reporting for transmission streams
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Digital communication
- US12513872B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Artificial reality device accessories to increase thermal budget
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technologyOptics
- WO2025264536A1
Invention publication
2025-12-26High refractive index optical polymers
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Macromolecular chemistry, polymersBasic materials chemistry
- WO2025264729A2
Invention publication
2025-12-26Methods and processes for stretchable multi-layer circuits and systems and methods of use thereof
META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
Audio-visual technology
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10Method and sources
Counting units
Publications are deduplicated by publication number; applications by application number, so a publication and its grant count once; families by the source family ID. Technology fields are derived automatically from IPC codes using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance (March 2026), without manual or AI labeling.
Publication or grant documents do not establish current rights. Check legal status and current owners with the relevant patent office.
Entity scope
These statistics use only the applicant names and publication dates collected for this snapshot. They do not represent the full company or group portfolio.
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- FACEBOOK INC · META PLATFORMS INC · META PLATFORMS TECH LLC
- Reviewed names not covered
- FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES LLC · FACEBOOK, INC. · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES , LLC · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC · META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. · META PLATFORMS, INC. · OCULUS VR LLC
Current entity configuration and review evidence
The reviewed entities and aliases below describe the current company configuration. Only names listed above are covered by this snapshot.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Configured aliases: Meta Platforms Inc · Facebook Inc · Facebook, Inc.
Original review note: 官方更名记录确认 Facebook Inc 与 Meta Platforms Inc；不与 Technologies 法人混并。
Review evidenceMeta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Configured aliases: Meta Platforms Technologies LLC · Facebook Technologies LLC · Oculus VR LLC · META PLATFORMS TECH LLC · Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc. · Meta Platforms Technologies , LLC
Original review note: 2025 全年 CMR 明确全资关系；与父公司更名链分开。US12372796B2 和 US12306976B2 的 BigQuery 标准名 META PLATFORMS TECH LLC、原始名称字段 Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc 与浏览器显示一致。该映射不推断当前权属。
Review evidenceData sources
- Google Patents · PartialPublished 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · retrieved 2026-10-29 · 1,545 included · 0 out of scopeSource and terms
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