Richard W. Ely has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at RTX (Raytheon) . The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. Richard W. Ely ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Richard W. Ely in Lewisville, TX, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2024 Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2021. peak 5 1996: 1 patents 1996 2015: 2 patents 2015 2016: 3 patents 2016 2017: 1 patents 2017 2020: 1 patents 2020 2021: 5 patents 2021 2022: 2 patents 2022 2023: 1 patents 2023 2024: 1 patents 2024
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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
12511832 Extraction of 3D evaluation points for image conjugates Jody D. Verret 2025-12-30
11964762 Collaborative 3D mapping and surface registration Torsten Staab , Steven B. Seida , Jody D. Verret , Stephen J. Raif 2024-04-23
11568638 Image targeting via targetable 3D data Wyatt D. Sharp, III , Kathryn A. Welin , Jody D. Verret , Stephen J. Raif 2023-01-31
11538135 Automatic multi-image 3D ground control point extraction Jody D. Verret 2022-12-27
11348310 Building mask generation from 3D point set — 2022-05-31
11127145 Image registration to a 3D point set — 2021-09-21
11087532 Ortho-image mosaic production system Jody D. Verret , Ali J. Arik , Corey J. Collard , Jerry O. Moore , Robert M. Willer +8 more 2021-08-10
11042998 Synthetic image generation from 3D-point cloud — 2021-06-22
10970815 Multi-source image fusion — 2021-04-06
10943392 Digital elevation model quality control — 2021-03-09
10553020 Shadow mask generation using elevation data Allen Hainline 2020-02-04
$57,350,000
9767572 Systems and methods for 3D point cloud processing — 2017-09-19
$37,033,000
9451166 System and method for imaging device motion compensation Thomas G. Ribardo, Jr. 2016-09-20
$32,938,000
9269145 System and method for automatically registering an image to a three-dimensional point set Jody D. Verret , Grant B. Boroughs 2016-02-23
$25,947,000
9256619 Method for detecting and recognizing boats — 2016-02-09
$24,160,000
9196044 False alarm rejection for boat detection candidates — 2015-11-24
$12,940,000
9165361 Video tracking with jitter, slewing, or zoom — 2015-10-20
$13,184,000
5550182 Masking composition for protecting vehicle surface from overspray James Paul Gilson , Cathy Pawelski 1996-08-27
