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Kent Kahle — 46 Patents

TLTrimble Navigation Limited: 44 patents #6 of 889Top 1%
HAHilti Aktiengesellschaft: 1 patents #789 of 1,466Top 55%
Hayward, CA: #23 of 1,120 inventorsTop 3%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Kent Kahle has been granted 46 US patents. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in December 2025. Kent Kahle ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Kent Kahle in Hayward, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2019.peak 72003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 3 patents20062009: 2 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 7 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 3 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12487098 Optical map data aggregation and feedback in a construction environment Jordan Lawver, Murali A. Krishnan, David Burczyk, Brett Allyn Williams, Peter Ziegler 2025-12-02
12175557 Correcting position of a mobile device using a mobile reference Young Jin Lee, Scott Graybill, Matthew Fonken, Ashish Dhital, Jordan Lawver 2024-12-24 $51,419,000
12146741 Construction layout using augmented reality for guiding total station relock David C. Hyland, Benedict JG Atkins, Eliot Jones, Marc Howell, Steven Ostrowski 2024-11-19 $104,067,000
11869159 High density 3D environment capture with guided mixed reality Jordan Lawver 2024-01-09 $25,917,000
11821730 Construction layout using augmented reality David C. Hyland, Benedict JG Atkins, Eliot Jones, Marc Howell, Steven Ostrowski 2023-11-21 $34,308,000
11512956 Construction layout using augmented reality David C. Hyland, Benedict JG Atkins, Eliot Jones, Marc Howell, Steven Ostrowski 2022-11-29 $29,150,000
11373381 High-density 3D environment capture to guide mixed reality Jordan Lawver 2022-06-28 $71,221,000
11221217 Layout workflow with augmented reality and optical prism David C. Hyland, Benedict JG Atkins, Eliot Jones, Marc Howell, Steven Ostrowski 2022-01-11 $90,875,000
11181991 System and method for measuring position and orientation of a rigid body Sascha Korl, Andreas Winter, Scott Graybill 2021-11-23
11002541 Target positioning with electronic distance measuring and bundle adjustment Young Jin Lee, Malte Seidler, Paul Montgomery, Andreas Winter 2021-05-11 $117,279,000
10997747 Target positioning with bundle adjustment Young Jin Lee, Malte Seidler 2021-05-04 $62,537,000
10646975 Measurement, layout, marking, firestop stick Young Jin Lee 2020-05-12 $38,997,000
10460267 Integration of as built data of a project Pat Bohle, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer +1 more 2019-10-29 $48,652,000
10406645 Calibration approach for camera placement Young Jin Lee 2019-09-10 $15,644,000
10347008 Self positioning camera system to 3D CAD/BIM model Young Jin Lee 2019-07-09 $29,263,000
10339670 3D tool tracking and positioning using cameras Changlin Xiao 2019-07-02 $15,700,000
10341618 Infrastructure positioning camera system Young Jin Lee 2019-07-02 $15,700,000
10300573 Measurement, layout, marking, firestop stick Young Jin Lee 2019-05-28 $19,876,000
10192178 Application information for power tools Pat Bohle, Reinhard Waibel, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer +2 more 2019-01-29 $28,955,000
10094662 Three-dimension position and heading solution Kurtis L. Maynard, Paul Montgomery 2018-10-09 $18,312,000
9936181 Method and apparatus for projection of BIM information Jinwei Jiang, Christian Graesser, Andreas Winter, Ulrich Vollath 2018-04-03 $17,810,000
9898705 Automated handtool task verification Pat Bohle, Robert Painter, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer +2 more 2018-02-20 $12,605,000
9879994 Method of placing a total station in a building Pat Bohle 2018-01-30 $8,786,000
9817839 Managing information at a construction site Pat Bohle, Robert Painter, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer +2 more 2017-11-14 $45,109,000
9760078 System for positioning a tool in a work space 2017-09-12 $10,829,000