B61B 5/00
Elevated railway systems without suspended vehicles
Official title: Elevated railway systems without suspended vehicles (with monorail B61B13/04; tracks therefor E01B25/00)
B61B5/00 (Elevated railway systems without suspended vehicles) appears on 130 US grants and 120 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61B- Granted patents
- 130
- Published applications
- 120
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 224
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 6 | 4 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 6 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 | 7 |
| 2017 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7 | 6 |
| 2020 | 4 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13 |
| 2022 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 | 13 |
| 2024 | 10 | 8 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8 |
| 2026 | 6 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Safety fence, transfer device including a safety fence and apparatus for processing a substrate including a safety fence4 Aug 2026US 12,698,599 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Service vehicle with drone bases21 Jul 2026US 12,686,366 B2Autostore Technology AS
- Beam measuring device9 Jun 2026US 12,650,360 B2Innova Transportation, LLC
- Sawtooth station, bidirectional sawtooth platform, car tether, and elevated autonomous people mover system14 Apr 2026US 12,600,387 B2
- Track beam and track beam assembly14 Apr 2026US 12,601,119 B2BYD Company Limited
- Monument Sliding Rail System with Height Adjust8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307796 A1B/E Aerospace, Inc.
- An automated warehouse shuttle for carrying rollable goods6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225867 A1Movu
- Storage and retrieval systems for robotic picking30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216902 A1Nimble Robotics, Inc.
- Warehouse shuttle blocking arrangement30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217290 A1Movu
- An automated storage and retrieval system with logically operable barriers for safe enter and exit into a transport vehicle, and an associated method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208769 A1Autostore Technology AS
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hollow structural members, a rail system and methods of manufacturing55US 8,066,200 B2Hilltrac, Inc. · 2011
- Carriage with tiltable plates, for sorting machines in particular50US 4,726,464 A1988
- Rail transit system46US 6,321,657 B12001
- Switch mechanism32US 4,522,128 ARegents of the University of Minnesota · 1985
- Side-mounted monorail transportation system32US 4,690,064 A1987