B61L 27/40
Handling position reports or trackside vehicle data
B61L27/40 (Handling position reports or trackside vehicle data) appears on 410 US grants and 534 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61L- Granted patents
- 410
- Published applications
- 534
- Assignees
- 184
- Inventors
- 989
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 4 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 5 |
| 2006 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 | 8 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 8 |
| 2013 | 6 | 7 |
| 2014 | 7 | 19 |
| 2015 | 9 | 13 |
| 2016 | 11 | 46 |
| 2017 | 28 | 50 |
| 2018 | 30 | 38 |
| 2019 | 42 | 51 |
| 2020 | 33 | 55 |
| 2021 | 39 | 63 |
| 2022 | 37 | 38 |
| 2023 | 36 | 43 |
| 2024 | 48 | 31 |
| 2025 | 43 | 20 |
| 2026 | 16 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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