Mark Zuckerberg
Founder And CEO Meta
United States
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is a media mogul, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist from the United States. He is best recognized for co-founding Facebook and serving as the company’s chairman, CEO, and controlling shareholder. He is also a board member of Breakthrough Starshot, a solar sail spacecraft development project.
“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.”
Since 2008, Time magazine has recognized Zuckerberg as one of the world’s 100 most influential people as part of its Person of the Year award, which he won in 2010. Zuckerberg was placed 10th on Forbes’ list of the World’s Most Powerful People in December 2016.
Mark Zuckerberg’s patent portfolio has 184 patents that belong to 29 unique patent families. We have used the below exhibits to highlight the key statistics of Mark Zuckerberg’s patent portfolio.
| Total Patents | 184 |
| Granted Patents | 139 |
| Associated Companies | Meta |
| Field of Invention | Software & Technology |
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How Many Patents did Mark Zuckerberg File Every Year?
Are you wondering why there has been a drop in patent filing for the last two years? This is because a patent application can take up to 18 months to publish. Certainly, it doesn’t suggest a decrease in the patent filing.
| Year of Patents Filing or Grant | Mark Zuckerberg Applications Filed | Mark Zuckerberg Patents Granted |
| 2011 | 51 | 2 |
| 2012 | 25 | 20 |
| 2013 | 11 | 12 |
| 2014 | 17 | 18 |
| 2015 | 13 | 23 |
| 2016 | 2 | 13 |
| 2017 | 4 | 17 |
| 2018 | 1 | 11 |
| 2019 | 1 | 8 |
| 2020 | 1 | 7 |
| 2021 | – | 5 |
How Many Mark Zuckerberg Patents Are Alive/Dead?
How Many Patents did Mark Zuckerberg File in Different Countries?
Countries in which Mark Zuckerberg Filed Patents
| Country | Patent |
| United States Of America | 115 |
| Australia | 9 |
| Canada | 9 |
| Japan | 9 |
| Europe (EPO) | 8 |
| Brazil | 7 |
| China | 5 |
| India | 3 |
| South Africa | 2 |
| South Korea | 2 |
| Mexico | 1 |
| Austria | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
What Technologies are covered by Mark Zuckerberg’s Patents?
We can sum up that patents related to Social Networking majorly refers to the display of content i.e. in Facebook’s timeline and thereof covering a major portion of what we see in Facebook today, from our personalized timeline to dynamically updating news feed to the comment/compliment feature of Facebook and the other features which we get to use in the website.
Patents related to privacy include the process of masking the identity of a targeted user from an advertiser and the privacy settings available for the user on the website.
The advertisement-related patent is basically to the sponsored posts and a feed containing the sponsored articles and news stories about one or more than one user of the social media platform with whom the viewing user is linked and may be generated by the platform itself. This stream could be made available for the viewing person to see.
Messenger patent refers to messaging systems, and more specifically to a messaging system that allows users to converse across many channels. Its application can be realized in the popular Facebook Messenger App.
Patent related to Music Playback relates to identifying patterns in people’s particular listening habits and constructing playback streams based on those patterns. The innovation can be utilized with many other devices which can learn the patterns of the person who is using them.
Subscription patent refers to a subscription/paid plan that unlocks certain customization for any user and they can pay to have their profiles personalized on social networking platforms accordingly. The user can choose one or more social media items to replace commercials or other components that would otherwise be controlled by the platform and presented to visitors of the user’s profile page.
Among these patents, Mark’s latest invention was filed in the year 2020 is the patent US10984174B1 – Dynamically providing a feed of stories about a user of a social networking system.
Missing a piece of information, article, or data on social media platforms is a very common phenomenon and even wastes a lot of time while researching the same. No issues, Mark Zuckerberg’s patent will come to your rescue.
Traditionally, a user of a social networking site connects with other users by supplying personal information to a social networking website that other users can access. There are procedures in place that allow a user to display data about other users. Some techniques may allow the user to pick and choose which articles they want to see right away. The majority of the time, though, these articles are disjointed and fragmented. To put it another way, the user must devote time to investigate a news issue and many of the articles are irrelevant to the user. Similarly, the user may be uninformed of the presence of some news articles that were missed throughout their search.
The patent US10984174B1 states a technique that a list of the subject user’s activity on the social network can be compiled from the social network’s numerous databases. This data stream is generated automatically depending on the activities list of the user following which the list can then be filtered and may be presented as a collection of data items in a predetermined sequence. Which can solve the problem efficiently. Viola!!
10 Best Mark Zuckerberg Patents
US7945653B2 is the most popular patent in Mark Zuckerberg’s portfolio. It has received 915 citations so far from companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, and IBM.
Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of Mark Zuckerberg
| Publication Number | Citation Count |
| US7945653B2 | 915 |
| US7669123B2 | 533 |
| US7725492B2 | 369 |
| US20090182589A1 | 298 |
| US8171128B2 | 223 |
| US8225376B2 | 111 |
| US8250145B2 | 103 |
| USD717814S1 | 101 |
| US7797256B2 | 101 |
| USD653258S1 | 97 |