ON 26 January 2026, Solos Technology, a Hong Kong-based maker of smart eyewear, has initiated a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Meta and its partner EssilorLuxottica (the parent of Ray-Ban). Solos Technology claims that Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses copy several of its patented technologies and is seeking billions of dollars in restitution, plus a permanent injunction prohibiting further distribution of the allegedly infringing products.
The complaint recounts a multi-year history of interactions, alleging that EssilorLuxottica personnel engaged with Solos Technology’s technology as early as 2015, with further briefings and prototype testing occurring between 2017 and 2019. Solos Technology highlights Priyanka Shekar, a scholar who authored MIT research on the firm’s product strategies before joining Meta as a product manager, and argues she funnelled patented secrets into Meta’s ecosystem to catalyse the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
The asserted infringements cover core architectural domains of smart eyewear, including multimodal sensing, beamforming audio processing, sensor fusion, and contextual awareness and proactive assistants, with Solos claiming that its AirGo series overlaps with Meta’s offerings, incorporating AI features such as real-time translation and vocal queries.