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William A. Olson — 32 Patents

Johnson & Johnson: 13 patents #753 of 7,810Top 10%
CICilag Gmbh International: 11 patents #145 of 874Top 20%
HIHill-Rom: 3 patents #64 of 254Top 30%
DCDraeger Medical Infant Care: 1 patents #5 of 15Top 35%
HSHill-Rom Services: 1 patents #638 of 861Top 75%
Lebanon, OH: #15 of 545 inventorsTop 3%
Ohio: #1,603 of 73,341 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
William A. Olson has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Johnson & Johnson. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in November 2025. William A. Olson ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list William A. Olson in Lebanon, OH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2019.peak 41995: 1 patents19951998: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 4 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12465384 Surgical instruments with articulating shafts Jeffrey D. Messerly, Daniel W. Price, Kevin L. Houser, Craig N. Faller, William D. Dannaher +2 more 2025-11-11
12465390 Electrodes and methods for use with a multi-layer clamp arm pad to enhance the performance of a surgical device Jacob S. Gee, Michael A. Keenan, Tyler N. Brehm, Cameron D. McLain, Kevin Price 2025-11-11
12336747 Method of operating a combination ultrasonic / bipolar RF surgical device with a combination energy modality end-effector John M. Sarley, Chad P. Boudreaux, Tyler N. Brehm, Ellen Burkart, Jeffrey D. Messerly +17 more 2025-06-24
12178464 Ultrasonic surgical instrument with articulating end effector having a curved blade Foster B. Stulen, William B. Weisenburgh, II 2024-12-31
11925378 Ultrasonic transducer for surgical instrument Jeffrey D. Messerly, Brian D. Black, Foster B. Stulen, Frederick L. Estera, William E. Clem +4 more 2024-03-12
11786291 Deflectable support of RF energy electrode with respect to opposing ultrasonic blade John M. Sarley, Chad P. Boudreaux, Tyler N. Brehm, Wei Guo, Ellen Burkart +6 more 2023-10-17
11678903 Ultrasonic surgical instrument with articulating end effector having a curved blade Foster B. Stulen, William B. Weisenburgh, II 2023-06-20
11602364 Surgical instrument with removable end effector components Ryan M. Asher, Gregory D. Bishop, Brian D. Black, Chad P. Boudreaux, David J. Cagle +22 more 2023-03-14
11583306 Surgical instruments with articulating shafts Jeffrey D. Messerly, Daniel W. Price, Kevin L. Houser, Craig N. Faller, William D. Dannaher +2 more 2023-02-21
11529164 Ultrasonic device for cutting and coagulating Foster B. Stulen, John B. Schulte, Jeffrey L. Aldridge, Jeffery T. Kirk, Randal T. Byrum +4 more 2022-12-20
11484333 Method of operating an articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument Barry C. Worrell, Benjamin J. Danziger, Benjamin D. Dickerson, Brian D. Black, Cara L. Shapiro +28 more 2022-11-01
11350959 Ultrasonic transducer techniques for ultrasonic surgical instrument Jeffrey D. Messerly, Brian D. Black, Frederick L. Estera, William E. Clem, Jerome R. Morgan +2 more 2022-06-07
11179177 Ultrasonic blade and clamp arm matching design 2021-11-23
10828056 Ultrasonic transducer to waveguide acoustic coupling, connections, and configurations Jeffrey D. Messerly, Benjamin D. Dickerson, Rafael J. Ruiz Ortiz, Ryan M. Asher, Joseph Dennis +10 more 2020-11-10 $122,981,000
10779847 Ultrasonic transducer to waveguide joining Jeffrey D. Messerly, Brian D. Black, Frederick L. Estera, Jason R. Lesko, Benjamin M. Boyd +17 more 2020-09-22 $93,456,000
10441310 Surgical instruments with curved section Jeffrey D. Messerly, Daniel W. Price, Kevin L. Houser, Craig N. Faller, William D. Dannaher +2 more 2019-10-15 $88,591,000
10420580 Ultrasonic transducer for surgical instrument Jeffrey D. Messerly, Brian D. Black, Foster B. Stulen, Frederick L. Estera, William E. Clem +4 more 2019-09-24 $91,257,000
10258363 Method of operating an articulating ultrasonic surgical instrument Barry C. Worrell, Benjamin J. Danziger, Benjamin D. Dickerson, Brian D. Black, Cara L. Shapiro +28 more 2019-04-16 $77,495,000
10238416 Ultrasonic device for cutting and coagulating Foster B. Stulen, John B. Schulte, Jeffrey L. Aldridge, Jeffery T. Kirk, Randal T. Byrum +4 more 2019-03-26 $71,113,000
10154852 Ultrasonic surgical blade with improved cutting and coagulation features Sean P. Conlon, Jacob S. Gee, Foster B. Stulen, William D. Dannaher 2018-12-18 $201,471,000
10004527 Ultrasonic surgical instrument with staged clamping Jacob S. Gee, David J. Cagle, Frederick L. Estera, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Frederick E. Shelton, IV +5 more 2018-06-26 $41,040,000
9737735 Ultrasonic surgical apparatus with silicon waveguide Timothy G. Dietz, Foster B. Stulen, William D. Dannaher, John W. Willis, Sora Rhee +7 more 2017-08-22 $49,416,000
9393037 Surgical instruments with articulating shafts Foster B. Stulen, Jeffrey D. Messerly, Daniel W. Price, Kevin L. Houser, William D. Dannaher +2 more 2016-07-19 $162,393,000
9114245 Ultrasonic surgical apparatus and methods for use thereof Timothy G. Dietz, Foster B. Stulen 2015-08-25 $31,789,000
9095367 Flexible harmonic waveguides/blades for surgical instruments Kevin L. Houser, Jeffrey D. Messerly, Foster B. Stulen 2015-08-04 $64,594,000