B66C 21/00
Cable cranes, i.e. comprising hoisting devices running on aerial cable-ways
Official title: Cable cranes, i.e. comprising hoisting devices running on aerial cable-ways (rope or cable drives for trolleys, combinations of such drives with hoisting gear B66C11/16; railway systems B61B; rope or cable winding mechanisms B66D1/00)
B66C21/00 (Cable cranes, i.e. comprising hoisting devices running on aerial cable-ways) appears on 106 US grants and 76 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66C- Granted patents
- 106
- Published applications
- 76
- Assignees
- 53
- Inventors
- 197
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Discrete delivery of material11 Aug 2026US 12,703,121 B2Contour Crafting Corporation
- Method for controlling a movement of a load in a workspace of a load transport device9 Dec 2025US 12,492,102 B2Hans Künz GmbH
- System and apparatus for moving objects2 Sep 2025US 12,404,151 B2Treemagineers Ltd.
- Modular, propelled cable suspended robot for industrial plants and unmanned offshore platforms25 Feb 2025US 12,233,545 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Load transport system for transporting a load in a working space28 Jan 2025US 12,208,997 B2Hans Künz GmbH
- Guiding system for exchanging a wind turbine blade and use method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210338 A1Nabrawind Technologies, S.L.
- Interchangeable payload multi-purpose system and method for monitoring a grass-turf and broadcasting19 Feb 2026US 2026/0051166 A1
- Cable Drag System with Hybrid Electric Drive25 Sep 2025US 2025/0296814 A1
- An aerial system for a camera28 Aug 2025US 2025/0271734 A1OmniCam4Sky, Lda.
- Apparatus and Method for Calibrating an Aerial Movement System8 May 2025US 2025/0147388 A1Cablecam, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Aerial support platform mechanism with five axes of motion37US 5,568,189 A1996
- Trolley-payload inter-ship transfer system34US 9,096,294 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2015
- Remotely operated camera system with battery recharging system28US 5,225,863 A1993
- Self-releasing log choker28US 5,816,636 A1998
- Control system for cable crane23US 5,392,935 AObayashi Corporation · 1995