B61D 15/08
Railway inspection trolleys
B61D15/08 (Railway inspection trolleys) appears on 49 US grants and 62 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61D- Granted patents
- 49
- Published applications
- 62
- Assignees
- 54
- Inventors
- 182
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2020 | 6 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 5 |
| 2022 | 4 | 6 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 8 |
| 2025 | 7 | 4 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Rail inspection device12 May 2026US 12,623,695 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Track travelling device11 Nov 2025US 12,466,449 B2Jingdong Technology Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Device and method for the maintenance of an overhead line system of a track29 Jul 2025US 12,370,926 B2Robel Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH
- Transformable robot mechanism and inspection robot1 Jul 2025US 12,344,284 B2Guangdong Keystar Intelligence Robot Co., Ltd.
- Gate catch assembly20 May 2025US 12,305,427 B2Melvelle Equipment Corp. Pty Ltd
- Method and system for autonomous inspection for elongated infrastructure elements2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186506 A1Premier Seals India Private Ltd
- Mobile platform and system for powering rail operations26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084539 A1Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
- Motorized railway safety cart and deployment system thereof8 Jan 2026US 2026/0008486 A1Kronos Aerial Photography Ltd.
- Systems and methods for portable and autonomous railroad track measurement23 Oct 2025US 2025/0326410 A1Holland Company
- Method for determining at least one geometry parameter of a railroad track and system for implementing the method16 Oct 2025US 2025/0319910 A1Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle for and method of operation on both road and railroad track19US 4,048,925 ASwedish Rail System AB SRS · 1977
- Vehicle having variable gauge rail wheels19US 4,942,826 ATrackmobile LLC · 1990
- Personal transit vehicle using single rails17US 8,720,345 B1Rail Pod Inc. · 2014
- Maintenance cart for remote inspection and cleaning of closed track16US 6,349,653 B1Lockheed Martin Corporation · 2002
- Apparatus and method for enabling a two-wheeled vehicle to travel along a railroad track8US 5,461,984 A1995