B61D 15/00
Body details or kinds of railway vehicles: other railway vehicles
Official title: Other railway vehicles, e.g. scaffold cars; Adaptations of vehicles for use on railways (conveyor frames mounted for movement on rail tracks B65G41/02; wheeled machines used in permanent way construction or maintenance E01B)
B61D15/00 (Body details or kinds of railway vehicles: other railway vehicles) appears on 334 US grants and 336 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61D- Granted patents
- 334
- Published applications
- 336
- Assignees
- 210
- Inventors
- 758
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 13 | 23 |
| 2025 | 17 | 9 |
| 2026 | 11 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Mobile crane systems and methods11 Aug 2026US 12,703,405 B2
- End cab switcher locomotive4 Aug 2026US 12,698,012 B2Siemens Mobility GmbH
- Railcar bodyshell4 Aug 2026US 12,698,014 B2Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Platform traversal system and method2 Jun 2026US 12,643,578 B2Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
- Railbikes with reversible direction of travel26 May 2026US 12,637,115 B2
- An automated storage and retrieval system comprising a service vehicle and a service sled23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208772 A1Autostore Technology AS
- Method and system for autonomous inspection for elongated infrastructure elements2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186506 A1Premier Seals India Private Ltd
- Railroad car having multiple penetration resistant and protective structures14 May 2026US 2026/0131831 A1Hgmotive, Inc.
- Mobile platform and system for powering rail operations26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084539 A1Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
- Vehicle connection system and method26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084728 A1Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hi-rail vehicle-based rail inspection system68US 6,600,999 B2Sperry Rail, Inc. · 2003
- Rail car mover apparatus for loader vehicle48US 6,988,451 B2Brandt Road Rail Corporation · 2006
- Body structure46US 6,799,794 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. · 2004
- Impact-absorber devices, impact-absorption method, and framework and vehicle including such impact-aborber devices45US 5,660,116 AGEC Alsthom Transport SA · 1997
- Railway maintenance vehicle44US 5,156,639 ADeere & Company · 1992