B60L 13/006
Electric propulsion adapted for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways
Official title: {Electric propulsion adapted for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways (B60L13/03 takes precedence)}
B60L13/006 (Electric propulsion adapted for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways) appears on 59 US grants and 64 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 44
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Dual-mode transportation system66US 4,791,871 A1988
- High speed transit system50US 4,148,260 A1979
- Rapid transit system49US 3,954,064 AGravity Transit Company · 1976
- Material handling car and track assembly having opposed magnet linear motor drive and opposed permanent magnet brake assembly41US 5,277,125 ABAE Automated Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Rapid transit system40US 4,075,948 A1978