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William E. Dillon — 10 Patents

WGWilson Sporting Goods: 10 patents #29 of 235Top 15%
Chicago, IL: #1,246 of 13,327 inventorsTop 10%
Illinois: #9,022 of 84,256 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
William E. Dillon has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Wilson Sporting Goods. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in April 2024. William E. Dillon ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list William E. Dillon in Chicago, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2017.peak 22000: 1 patents20002017: 2 patents20172019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents20222024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11951360 Tennis ball Frank M. Simonutti, Chloe J. Lee 2024-04-09
11426637 Tennis ball having a thermoplastic core Frank M. Simonutti, Chloe J. Lee, Robert T. Thurman, David A. Vogel 2022-08-30
11247103 Tennis ball having a thermoplastic core Frank M. Simonutti, Chloe J. Lee, Robert T. Thurman, David A. Vogel 2022-02-15
11192001 Tennis ball having a thermoplastic core Frank M. Simonutti, Chloe J. Lee, Robert T. Thurman, David A. Vogel 2021-12-07
10918913 Tennis ball Frank M. Simonutti 2021-02-16
10549159 Tennis ball having a core with aerodynamic patterns Frank M. Simonutti, David A. Vogel 2020-02-04
10493327 Tennis ball having a core with internal material shift lines Frank M. Simonutti, Robert T. Thurman, David A. Vogel 2019-12-03
D800236 Pickle ball 2017-10-17
D799613 Pickle ball 2017-10-10
6030304 Pressureless tennis ball Frank M. Simonutti, Peter R. Tolley, Jerry Matheny 2000-02-29