B60L 15/40
Adaptation of control equipment on vehicle for remote actuation from a stationary
Official title: Adaptation of control equipment on vehicle for remote actuation from a stationary place (devices along the route for controlling devices on rail vehicles B61L3/00; central rail-traffic control systems B61L27/00)
B60L15/40 (Adaptation of control equipment on vehicle for remote actuation from a stationary) appears on 92 US grants and 105 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60L- Granted patents
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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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