B61B 12/122
For aerial ropeways
Official title: {for aerial ropeways (B61B12/127 takes precedence)}
B61B12/122 (For aerial ropeways) appears on 44 US grants and 22 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61B- Granted patents
- 44
- Published applications
- 22
- Assignees
- 21
- Inventors
- 51
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Cable transportation installation with improved safety, method for detecting an event on a cable and method for manufacturing one such installation11 Aug 2026US 12,703,404 B2Poma
- Hybrid cable/rail transportation system2 Dec 2025US 12,485,934 B2Leitner S.P.A.
- Ropeway self-propelled transporting equipment13 May 2025US 12,296,865 B2
- System for transporting sand for wellbore operations23 Jan 2024US 11,878,723 B2ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
- Cableway carriage4 Jul 2023US 11,691,654 B2MORINOKIKAI CO., Ltd.
- Transport facility2 Jan 2025US 2025/0002058 A1
- Circular cableway20 Jun 2024US 2024/0199091 A1Innova Patent GmbH
- Cable transportation installation with improved safety, method for detecting an event on a cable and method for manufacturing one such installation21 Jul 2022US 2022/0227400 A1Poma
- Hybrid cable/rail transportation system21 Jul 2022US 2022/0227401 A1Leitner S.P.A.
- Ropeway self-propelled transporting equipment16 Jun 2022US 2022/0185342 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Double-acting clamp for coupling a funicular vehicle to the running cable19US 5,582,109 ALeitner S.P.A. · 1996
- Bicable aerial transport system operating on two carrier and haulage ropes running on off-set pulleys15US 4,833,997 APomagalski S. A. · 1989
- Hand brake zip line device14US 9,707,976 B2Outdoor Ventures Group, LLC · 2017
- Cable transport installation12US 4,957,047 AVon Roll Transportsysteme AG · 1990
- Friction-based, motion damping assembly for a chairlift or the like11US 4,401,198 A1983