B60D 1/247
For improving weight distribution
Official title: {for improving weight distribution}
B60D1/247 (For improving weight distribution) appears on 134 US grants and 122 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60D- Granted patents
- 134
- Published applications
- 122
- Assignees
- 67
- Inventors
- 210
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 4 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 |
| 2015 | 8 | 10 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 5 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 5 |
| 2020 | 1 | 6 |
| 2021 | 6 | 10 |
| 2022 | 10 | 9 |
| 2023 | 15 | 27 |
| 2024 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2 |
| 2026 | 5 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Reconfigurable trailer hitch1 Sep 2026US 12,722,433 B2
- Trailer caried weight distribution hitch11 Aug 2026US 12,703,210 B2Curt Manufacturing, Inc.
- Agricultural vehicle for providing improved load distribution when towing an implement30 Jun 2026US 12,668,085 B2CNH Industrial America LLC
- Steering systems28 Apr 2026US 12,611,899 B2Premier Coil Solutions, Inc.
- Weight distributing trailer hitch14 Apr 2026US 12,600,181 B2Weigh Safe, LLC
- Weight Distribution Hitch24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285104 A1Gen-Y Creations, LLC
- Weight Distribution Hitch24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285105 A1Gen-Y Creations, LLC
- Height adjusting tow hitch systems, vehicles, and methods including the same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249656 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Hitch head with apparatus for pivoting16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200274 A1LKQ Corporation
- Systems and methods for facilitating optimal trailer weight distribution16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204111 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Trailer hitch58US 4,202,562 A1980
- Weight distributing hitch58US 5,465,991 AReese Products, Inc. · 1995
- Weight distributing hitch50US 5,375,867 AReese Products, Inc. · 1994
- Automatic trailer hitch system40US 5,580,076 A1996
- Load leveling weight distributing hitch39US 6,629,701 B1Colibert Enterprises · 2003