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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Whatsapp Inc.

USPTO Granted Patents = 165

% Expired Patents = 10.9

EPO Patents = 5

Trademarks = 11

Forward Citations = 528

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115 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Brian Lange Acton (45 out of 53 patents)

Jan Boris Koum (41 out of 41 patents)

Michael B Donohue (27 out of 27 patents)

4. Bryan Dennis O'Connor (21 out of 21 patents)

5. Randall Sarafa (21 out of 29 patents)

6. Ehren Andrew Kret (18 out of 20 patents)

7. Manpreet Singh (15 out of 25 patents)

8. Eugene Fooksman (14 out of 14 patents)

9. Erik James Reed (14 out of 20 patents)

10. Charles Donald Deets, Jr (13 out of 20 patents)

11. Anton Borzov (11 out of 11 patents)

12. Dmitri Stukalov (11 out of 12 patents)

13. Zafir Khan (9 out of 9 patents)

14. Cheng Tian (7 out of 7 patents)

15. Dima Stukalov (7 out of 7 patents)

Core Competencies:

End-to-End Encryption

Device Verification

Packet Loss Detection

Ephemeral Messaging

Multilanguage Tokenizer

Media Item Configuration

Group Messaging

Video Room Facilitation

Anonymized Information

Content Management

Real-Time Communications

Dynamic Codecs

165 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 12627987 - First-party application data transfer (2026-05-12),

2. 12603884 - Accessing an encrypted platform (2026-04-14),

3. 12572742 - Heuristic-based multilanguage tokenizer (2026-03-10),

4. 12554878 - Phone number obfuscation in social media platforms (2026-02-17),

5. 12549462 - Packet loss detection in real-time communications (2026-02-10),

6. 12500934 - Methods, mediums, and systems for verifying devices in an encrypted messaging system (2025-12-16),

7. 12395470 - Ephemeral messaging in a decentralized end-to-end encrypted messaging platform (2025-08-19),

8. 12389303 - Offline mesh messaging network with bluetooth broadcasting (2025-08-12),

9. 12316621 - Authenticating anonymous information (2025-05-27),

10. 12278817 - Methods, mediums, and systems for verifying devices in an encrypted messaging system (2025-04-14),

11. 12219017 - System and method for aggregating communication connections (2025-02-04),

12. 12212578 - Partial payload encryption with integrity protection (2025-01-28),

13. 12199930 - Purging participant messaging groups (2025-01-14),

14. 12184594 - Enabling polls in an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform (2024-12-31),

15. 12022057 - Methods, mediums, and systems for dynamically selecting codecs (2024-06-25),

WhatsApp Inc. is a messaging app owned by Facebook. It allows users to send text messages, voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media. With over 2 billion users worldwide, WhatsApp has become one of the most popular messaging platforms across different operating systems and devices.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Sep 15 2026

165 Patents

#11 in Menlo Park, CA

#525 in California

#2,407 in US

#4,991 in the World

Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Whatsapp Inc.

Forward Citations = 528

115 inventors:

Brian Lange Acton (45 out of 53 patents)

Jan Boris Koum (41 out of 41 patents)

Michael B Donohue (27 out of 27 patents)

4. Bryan Dennis O'Connor (21 out of 21 patents)

5. Randall Sarafa (21 out of 29 patents)

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