B61B 13/00
Railway systems: other railway systems
Official title: Other railway systems
B61B13/00 (Railway systems: other railway systems) appears on 1,174 US grants and 1,002 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61B- Granted patents
- 1,174
- Published applications
- 1,002
- Assignees
- 533
- Inventors
- 2,249
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 26 | 0 |
| 1977 | 16 | 0 |
| 1978 | 16 | 0 |
| 1979 | 9 | 0 |
| 1980 | 15 | 0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 |
| 1982 | 18 | 0 |
| 1983 | 18 | 0 |
| 1984 | 9 | 0 |
| 1985 | 10 | 0 |
| 1986 | 13 | 0 |
| 1987 | 19 | 0 |
| 1988 | 16 | 0 |
| 1989 | 23 | 0 |
| 1990 | 21 | 0 |
| 1991 | 18 | 0 |
| 1992 | 17 | 0 |
| 1993 | 14 | 0 |
| 1994 | 18 | 0 |
| 1995 | 18 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 23 | 0 |
| 1998 | 16 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 14 | 0 |
| 2001 | 23 | 6 |
| 2002 | 18 | 11 |
| 2003 | 20 | 11 |
| 2004 | 7 | 17 |
| 2005 | 9 | 17 |
| 2006 | 8 | 12 |
| 2007 | 9 | 21 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13 |
| 2009 | 11 | 23 |
| 2010 | 17 | 20 |
| 2011 | 15 | 26 |
| 2012 | 15 | 29 |
| 2013 | 26 | 30 |
| 2014 | 27 | 34 |
| 2015 | 31 | 38 |
| 2016 | 27 | 55 |
| 2017 | 33 | 48 |
| 2018 | 41 | 64 |
| 2019 | 53 | 69 |
| 2020 | 45 | 55 |
| 2021 | 59 | 88 |
| 2022 | 66 | 80 |
| 2023 | 51 | 69 |
| 2024 | 64 | 76 |
| 2025 | 57 | 56 |
| 2026 | 36 | 34 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electromagnet switch for shuttles on a track6 Oct 2026US 12,752,824 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Operation setting device of autonomous bogie, non-transitory computer readable medium storing operation setting program, and operation setting method22 Sep 2026US 12,743,089 B2Keigan Inc.
- Transport facility22 Sep 2026US 12,745,599 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Vehicles capable of operating on both ground and cantilevered support and to their tracks11 Aug 2026US 12,703,407 B2Urban.Mass Ltd
- Loading turntable systems and methods11 Aug 2026US 12,703,409 B2Universal City Studios LLC
- Method and system for protecting operations in a vacuum environment of an ultra-high-speed magnetic levitation low vacuum tube3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257707 A1CRSC Research & Design Institute Group Co., Ltd.
- Automated loading and unloading apparatus and transport system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257875 A1Dimension Product Solutions LP
- Overhead transport system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250068 A1Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- Magnetic levitation train rescue wheel device and magnetic levitation train20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241965 A1Crrc Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
- Undercarriage for a rail-bound maglev vehicle of a magnetic levitation train, and maglev vehicle13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233766 A1Max Boegl Stiftung & Co. KG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for sorting items245US 7,861,844 B2Opex Corporation · 2011
- Intelligent transport system176US 6,810,817 B12004
- Load transport and restraining devices and methods for restraining loads171US 9,809,308 B2General Electric Company · 2017
- Segmented tilt tray sorter165US 6,246,023 B1Siemens ElectroCom, L.P. · 2001
- Drive mechanism143US 4,759,439 ADominion Chain Inc. · 1988