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Emil Kadlec — 27 Patents

AOAurora Operations: 15 patents #10 of 269Top 4%
BLBlackmore Sensors & Analytics, Llc.: 6 patents #10 of 17Top 60%
AIAurora Innovation: 5 patents #2 of 25Top 8%
Bozeman, MT: #30 of 740 inventorsTop 5%
Montana: #70 of 3,198 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Emil Kadlec has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Aurora Operations. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in July 2025. Emil Kadlec ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Emil Kadlec in Bozeman, MT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2021.peak 72018: 1 patents20182020: 2 patents20202021: 7 patents20212022: 5 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 5 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12358535 Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle control using depolarization ratio of return signal Stephen C. Crouch, Zeb Barber, Ryan Moore Galloway, Sean Spillane 2025-07-15
12287409 Systems and methods for IQ detection Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2025-04-29
12253632 Systems and methods for pulsed-wave LIDAR Zeb Barber, Randy R. Reibel, Devlin Baker 2025-03-18
12241978 Method and system for enhanced velocity resolution and signal to noise ratio in optical phase-encoded range detection Stephen C. Crouch, Zeb Barber, Krishna Rupavatharam 2025-03-04
12066548 LIDAR transmit/receive system Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2024-08-20
11994629 Coherent signal combining with multiple-outputs for quasi-CW LIDAR operation Zeb Barber, Randy R. Reibel 2024-05-28
11921219 Systems and methods for IQ detection Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2024-03-05
11892543 Systems and methods for IQ detection Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2024-02-06 $73,565,000
11858533 Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle control using depolarization ratio of return signal Stephen C. Crouch, Zeb Barber, Ryan Moore Galloway, Sean Spillane 2024-01-02
11841441 LIDAR system Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch, Ryan Moore Galloway, Edward Joseph Angus 2023-12-12
11709267 Method and system for enhanced velocity resolution and signal to noise ratio in optical phase-encoded range detection Stephen C. Crouch, Zeb Barber, Krishna Rupavatharam 2023-07-25
11656343 Method and system for laser phase tracking for internal reflection subtraction in phase-encoded lidar Stephen C. Crouch, Krishna Rupavatharam 2023-05-23
11428789 Systems and methods for pulsed-wave LIDAR Zeb Barber, Randy R. Reibel, Devlin Baker 2022-08-30
11415699 Lidar transmit/receive system Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2022-08-16
11327161 Method and system for sidelobe suppression in phase encoded doppler LIDAR Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2022-05-10
11280909 Lidar transmit/receive system Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2022-03-22
11262455 LIDAR system Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch, Ryan Moore Galloway, Edward Joseph Angus 2022-03-01
11209529 Coherent signal combining with multiple-outputs for quasi-CW LIDAR operation Zeb Barber, Randy R. Reibel 2021-12-28
11161526 Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle control using depolarization ratio of return signal Stephen C. Crouch, Zeb Barber, Ryan Moore Galloway, Sean Spillane 2021-11-02
11029395 Systems and methods for pulsed-wave LIDAR Zeb Barber, Randy R. Reibel, Devlin Baker 2021-06-08 $17,942,000
11016197 LIDAR system Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch, Ryan Moore Galloway, Edward Joseph Angus 2021-05-25
11002837 Method and system for sidelobe suppression in phase encoded doppler LIDAR Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2021-05-11
10960900 Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle control using depolarization ratio of return signal Stephen C. Crouch, Zeb Barber, Ryan Moore Galloway, Sean Spillane 2021-03-30
10948600 Systems and methods for IQ detection Zeb Barber, Stephen C. Crouch 2021-03-16
10838061 Method and system for enhanced velocity resolution and signal to noise ratio in optical phase-encoded range detection Stephen C. Crouch, Zeb Barber, Krishna Rupavatharam 2020-11-17