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Daniel A. Johnson — 45 Patents

Nike: 43 patents #166 of 2,652Top 7%
Portland, OR: #400 of 9,213 inventorsTop 5%
Oregon: #804 of 28,073 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Daniel A. Johnson has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nike. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Daniel A. Johnson ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Daniel A. Johnson in Portland, OR, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12402696 Lacing engine for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider 2025-09-02
12329244 Deformable lace guides for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider, Narissa Chang, Peter R. Savage, Travis J. Berrian, Fanny Yung Ho +3 more 2025-06-17
12256806 Lacing architecture for automated footwear platform Eric P. Avar, Fanny Yung Ho, Peter R. Savage, Summer L. Schneider 2025-03-25
12171307 Lacing system Katelyn Ricciardi, Piero Fenato, Kevin W. Hoffer, Elizabeth A. Kilgore, Peter Ar-Fu Lam +1 more 2024-12-24 $96,316,000
12161197 Lacing architecture for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider, Narissa Chang, Peter R. Savage, Travis J. Berrian, Fanny Yung Ho +3 more 2024-12-10 $93,330,000
12053051 Shoe upper with floating layer Sam Amis, Vianney de Montgolfier, Gjermund Haugbro, James Hwang, Tetsuya T. Minami 2024-08-06 $51,580,000
11607013 Lacing engine for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider 2023-03-21 $121,001,000
11571043 Lacing architecture for automated footwear platform Eric P. Avar, Fanny Yung Ho, Peter R. Savage, Summer L. Schneider 2023-02-07 $99,864,000
11452339 Deformable lace guides for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider, Narissa Chang, Peter R. Savage, Travis J. Berrian, Fanny Yung Ho +3 more 2022-09-27 $71,481,000
11388955 Lacing architecture for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider, Narissa Chang, Peter R. Savage, Travis J. Berrian, Fanny Yung Ho +3 more 2022-07-19 $109,080,000
11311080 Shoe with composite upper and foam element and method of making same Frederick J. Dojan, Shane S. Kohatsu, Chin-Chen Huang 2022-04-26 $97,668,000
11259599 Lacing system Katelyn Bruce, Piero Fenato, Kevin W. Hoffer, Elizabeth A. Kilgore, Peter Ar-Fu Lam +1 more 2022-03-01 $100,281,000
11234488 Shoe upper with floating layer Sam Amis, Vianney de Montgolfier, Gjermund Haugbro, James Hwang, Tetsuya T. Minami 2022-02-01 $112,017,000
10897962 System and method for forming an article Yung-Tsung Tseng 2021-01-26 $89,405,000
10856618 Lacing architecture for automated footwear platform Eric P. Avar, Fanny Yung Ho, Peter R. Savage, Summer L. Schneider 2020-12-08 $69,114,000
10595591 Shoe with composite upper and foam element and method of making same Frederick J. Dojan, Shane S. Kohatsu, Chin-Chen Huang 2020-03-24 $50,765,000
10537155 Lacing architecture for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider, Narissa Chang, Peter R. Savage, Travis J. Berrian, Fanny Yung Ho +3 more 2020-01-21 $91,390,000
10531708 Lacing engine for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider 2020-01-14 $78,495,000
10506848 Footwear incorporating a tensile element with a deposition layer Frederick J. Dojan, Chin-Chen Huang 2019-12-17 $288,340,000
10408693 System and method for analyzing athletic activity Michael S. Amos, Frederick J. Dojan, James C. Meschter, Matthew A. Nurse, Andrew A. Owings +3 more 2019-09-10 $42,747,000
10051917 Shoe with composite upper and foam element and method of making same Frederick J. Dojan, Shane S. Kohatsu, Chin-Chen Huang 2018-08-21 $106,632,000
9961963 Lacing engine for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider 2018-05-08 $46,500,000
9872538 Articles of footwear with tensile strand elements Frederick J. Dojan, Shane S. Kohatsu, Chin-Chen Huang 2018-01-23 $94,968,000
9861165 Lacing engine for automated footwear platform Summer L. Schneider 2018-01-09 $32,312,000
9801430 Footwear incorporating a tensile element with a deposition layer Frederick J. Dojan, Chin-Chen Huang 2017-10-31 $33,589,000