B60L 13/03
Electric propulsion by linear motors
B60L13/03 (Electric propulsion by linear motors) appears on 258 US grants and 265 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60L- Granted patents
- 258
- Published applications
- 265
- Assignees
- 109
- Inventors
- 539
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2007 | 1 | 7 |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 | 14 |
| 2011 | 9 | 5 |
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| 2021 | 20 | 19 |
| 2022 | 11 | 21 |
| 2023 | 14 | 22 |
| 2024 | 17 | 16 |
| 2025 | 16 | 17 |
| 2026 | 18 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Wheel assemblies for shuttles powered by linear synchronous motors6 Oct 2026US 12,752,632 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Transportation system6 Oct 2026US 12,752,633 B2
- Linear drive for track-guided means of land transportation or railway vehicles15 Sep 2026US 12,738,828 B2Indrivetec AG
- Contactless direction of sortation shuttles along a track26 May 2026US 12,636,957 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Linear conveyance system5 May 2026US 12,617,634 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Control system and method for a rail-track system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241967 A1Magway Limited
- Electromagnetic transport device with a cooperation element23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208982 A1
- System and Method to Reduce Particulate Generation in an Independent Cart System21 May 2026US 2026/0138652 A1Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Sustainable movement planning for an electromagnetic transport system23 Apr 2026US 2026/0111042 A1ABB Schweiz AG
- Power Feeder9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097660 A1Daifuku Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for servo control of nonlinear electromagnetic actuators139US 6,208,497 B1Venture Scientifics, LLC · 2001
- Traffic/transportation system121US 6,129,025 A2000
- Roadway power and control system for inductively coupled transportation system89US 4,836,344 AInductran Corporation · 1989
- Transport system powered by short block linear synchronous motors79US 8,616,134 B2MagneMotion, Inc. · 2013
- Transport system powered by short block linear synchronous motors58US 9,346,371 B2MagneMotion, Inc. · 2016