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William Denton — 2 Patents

Nike: 1 patents #1,996 of 2,652Top 80%
Beaverton, OR: #1,635 of 3,140 inventorsTop 55%
Oregon: #12,752 of 28,073 inventorsTop 50%
Overall (All Time): #1,709,992 of 4,157,543Top 45%
2 Patents All Time
William Denton has been granted 2 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nike. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in January 2025. William Denton ranks #1,709,992 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 41.1%). Patent records list William Denton in Beaverton, OR, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–2 of 2 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12185788 Method for molding foamed material Jeongeun Bae, Rory S. Blanche, Ryan Creswell, Caleb W. Dyer, Bryan N. Farris +3 more 2025-01-07
5789037 Cross-linking agent and process for cross-linking binder and textile colorant on a textile fabric James Knox 1998-08-04