B61K 5/06
Derailing or re-railing blocks
B61K5/06 (Derailing or re-railing blocks) appears on 24 US grants and 18 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61K- Granted patents
- 24
- Published applications
- 18
- Assignees
- 13
- Inventors
- 28
- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Derailing system3 Feb 2026US 12,539,899 B2Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
- Derail warning light system15 Oct 2024US 12,116,029 B2Railserve, Inc.
- Universal track derailer assembly13 Feb 2024US 11,897,523 B2Western-Cullen-Hayes, Inc.
- Derail warning light system2 Aug 2022US 11,400,963 B2Focused Technology Solutions, Inc.
- Derailing device17 May 2022US 11,332,171 B2Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
- Derail Warning Light System3 Jul 2025US 2025/0214634 A1Railserve, Inc.
- Derail Warning Light System18 May 2023US 2023/0150558 A1Railserve, Inc.
- Derailing system11 Aug 2022US 2022/0250663 A1Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
- Universal Track Derailer Assembly26 Aug 2021US 2021/0261175 A1Western-Cullen-Hayes, Inc.
- Derailing device4 Mar 2021US 2021/0061321 A1Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Portable derail9US 4,165,060 AWestern-Cullen-Hayes, Inc. · 1979
- Lightweight and ultra-lightweight portable derails9US 6,105,906 AWestern-Cullen-Hayes, Inc. · 2000
- Double end derail8US 6,202,564 B1Western-Cullen-Hayes, Inc. · 2001
- Hinged derail with assisted manual lifting and method for constructing7US 7,549,611 B2Western-Cullen-Hayes, Inc. · 2009
- Derail wheel crowder6US 3,944,174 AFederal Sign and Signal Corporation · 1976