B66C 13/48
Automatic control of crane drives for producing a single or repeated working
Official title: Automatic control of crane drives for producing a single or repeated working cycle; Program control
B66C13/48 (Automatic control of crane drives for producing a single or repeated working) appears on 264 US grants and 346 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66C- Granted patents
- 264
- Published applications
- 346
- Assignees
- 180
- Inventors
- 714
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 48 | 36 |
| 2026 | 22 | 27 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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