Dan Henderson
Daniel Henderson is an American inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur.
His invention of wireless picture and video messaging in cellular telephones is covered by U.S. Patent 8,160,221,"Cellular telephone with the ability to display and store picture and video messages and Caller ID received from a message originator" and U.S. Patent 8,472,595, "Method and Apparatus for providing a portable communication device with the ability to selectively display picture and video". He has received 31 U.S. Patents that have cumulatively been cited in other patents over 1000 times. He has had extensive experience in intellectual property, licensing to over 170 of the largest companies in the world. His prototype wireless devices were received at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.
Henderson was assistant to Kazuo Hashimoto, the inventor of Caller ID and the modern answering machine, and also worked with Jack Kilby, inventor of the computer chip. His 1993 inventions are utilized today in nearly every cell phone in the world. He was named a mobile technology innovator for video sharing in cellular phones when he appeared in a 2012 Super Bowl commercial for Best Buy along with Ray Kurzweil and Neil Papworth.
Henderson has a close affiliation with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he serves on the Board of Overseers and the Dorman Honors College Board of Visitors. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from NJIT in 2011. Henderson was inducted as a Fellow to the National Academy of Inventors in 2022.
Henderson is also an accomplished sculptor. His art explores the viral allure of technology and its impact it has on humanity. He has said that invention, like sculpting, is an artistic endeavor, and although the two disciplines utilize different mediums of expression, both share the ability to affect perception and how people interact. Photos of Henderson’s work are displayed below.
Photograph of The Brick and Princess by Ellen Page Wilson. Photograph of Premo by Bruce M. White. All works © Daniel A. Henderson.
