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John Hurd — 101 Patents

Nike: 100 patents #36 of 2,652Top 2%
Lake Oswego, OR: #6 of 769 inventorsTop 1%
Oregon: #211 of 28,073 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #14,231 of 4,157,543Top 1%
101 Patents All Time
John Hurd has been granted 101 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nike. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2025. John Hurd ranks #14,231 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.34%). Patent records list John Hurd in Lake Oswego, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2017.peak 111997: 1 patents19972005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents2010: 3 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 5 patents2013: 4 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 4 patents2017: 11 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 10 patents2020: 8 patents20202021: 7 patents2022: 8 patents2023: 10 patents20232024: 6 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 101 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12419391 Ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear Michael S. Amos, Thomas G. Bell, Lysandre Follet, Thomas Foxen, Shane S. Kohatsu +4 more 2025-09-23
12414605 Flexible fluid-filled chamber with tensile member Levi J. Patton 2025-09-16
12369687 Article of footwear incorporating particulate matter Cassidy R. Levy, Tetsuya T. Minami 2025-07-29
12115747 Articles of wear and processes for making the same Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Sergio Cavaliere, Meng-Chun Hu, James Molyneux +5 more 2024-10-15 $160,882,000
12054857 Knit textiles and uppers, and processes for making the same Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Sergio Cavaliere, Jessica Green, Stephen J. Hipp +4 more 2024-08-06 $51,580,000
12016426 Flexible fluid-filled chamber with tensile member Levi J. Patton 2024-06-25 $58,265,000
11969049 Flexible fluid-filled chamber with tensile member Levi J. Patton 2024-04-30 $63,091,000
11939709 Knit textiles and uppers, and processes for making the same Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Sergio Cavaliere, Jessica Green, Stephen J. Hipp +4 more 2024-03-26 $114,999,000
11864622 Ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear Michael S. Amos, Lysandre Follet, Thomas Foxen, Shane S. Kohatsu, Troy C. Lindner +2 more 2024-01-09 $68,623,000
11844398 Article of footwear incorporating particulate matter Cassidy R. Levy, Tetsuya T. Minami 2023-12-19 $83,940,000
11771176 Footwear with aligned tensile restraints Sam Amis, Michael S. Amos, James Molyneux 2023-10-03 $58,134,000
11758974 Article of footwear with thermoformed siped sole structure Tory M. Cross, Cassidy R. Levy, Matthew D. Nordstrom, James Zormeir 2023-09-19 $41,750,000
11744321 Cushioning member for article of footwear and method of making Tetsuya T. Minami 2023-09-05 $123,331,000
11696619 Ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear Michael S. Amos, Karen S. Dimoff, Lysandre Follet, Thomas Foxen, Shane S. Kohatsu +4 more 2023-07-11 $161,312,000
11680344 Textiles and articles, and processes for making the same Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Yuchung K. Chen, Jessica Green, Stephen J. Hipp +5 more 2023-06-20 $66,355,000
11680343 Textiles and articles, and processes for making the same Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Sergio Cavaliere, Jessica Green, Stephen J. Hipp +4 more 2023-06-20 $66,355,000
11659890 Flexible fluid-filled chamber with tensile member Levi J. Patton 2023-05-30 $76,231,000
11627778 Cushioning member for article of footwear Joël Ryp Greenspan, Cassidy R. Levy, Nicholas R. Long, Tetsuya T. Minami 2023-04-18 $491,929,000
11585023 Knit textiles and uppers, and processes for making the same Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Sergio Cavaliere, Jessica Green, Stephen J. Hipp +4 more 2023-02-21 $109,625,000
11533968 Ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear Michael S. Amos, Thomas G. Bell, Lysandre Follet, Thomas Foxen, Shane S. Kohatsu +4 more 2022-12-27 $166,935,000
11457692 Ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear Michael S. Amos, Lysandre Follet, Thomas Foxen, Shane S. Kohatsu, Troy C. Lindner +2 more 2022-10-04 $117,488,000
11425964 Footwear with aligned tensile restraints Sam Amis, Michael S. Amos, James Molyneux 2022-08-30 $85,936,000
11412812 Articles of footwear with asymmetrical segmented plates Leslie Barnes, Thomas G. Bell, Dustin A. Hatfield, Troy C. Lindner, Geng Luo +2 more 2022-08-16 $103,034,000
11400673 Articles of wear and processes for making the same Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Sergio Cavaliere, Meng-Chun Hu, James Molyneux +5 more 2022-08-02 $46,228,000
11358358 Method of manufacturing an article of footwear with a thermoformed siped sole structure Tory M. Cross, Cassidy R. Levy, Matthew D. Nordstrom, James Zormeir 2022-06-14 $124,026,000