B61L 23/08
Control, warning or like safety means along the route or between vehicles
Official title: for controlling traffic in one direction only
B61L23/08 (Control, warning or like safety means along the route or between vehicles) appears on 179 US grants and 174 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61L- Granted patents
- 179
- Published applications
- 174
- Assignees
- 93
- Inventors
- 323
- Latest grant
- 7 Jul 2026
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| 2024 | 14 | 13 |
| 2025 | 17 | 7 |
| 2026 | 7 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for virtual block stick circuits7 Jul 2026US 12,673,707 B2BNSF Railway Company
- Railroad virtual track block system16 Jun 2026US 12,654,753 B2BNSF Railway Company
- Safety device21 Apr 2026US 12,606,220 B2
- Light train control system applied to oversea freight railways31 Mar 2026US 12,589,783 B2Casco Signal Ltd.
- Collision protection and safety system for rail vehicles31 Mar 2026US 12,589,785 B2Harsco Technologies LLC
- Railroad virtual track block system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307691 A1BNSF Railway Company
- Axle counter decommissioning system23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208777 A1Dual Inventive Holding B.V.
- Wireless vehicle management system2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184355 A1Arup Ventures Limited
- Cbtc system based on interval protection and heterogeneous redundancy, and implementation method thereof7 May 2026US 2026/0125089 A1Casco Signal Ltd.
- System and method for virtual block operational status control with long block time delay30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116439 A1BNSF Railway Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device and method for positioning and controlling railway vehicles with ultra-large bandwidth48US 7,725,252 B2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) · 2010
- Method and computer program product for monitoring integrity of railroad train39US 7,222,003 B2General Electric Company · 2007
- Positive train control system and apparatus therefor36US 9,434,397 B2Panasec Corporation · 2016
- Method of transferring control of a railway vehicle in a communication based signaling system35US 5,823,481 AUnion Switch & Signal Inc. · 1998
- Coded track circuit repeater having standby mode32US 5,465,926 AUnion Switch & Signal Inc. · 1995