E01B 2203/16
Guiding or measuring means
Official title: Guiding or measuring means, e.g. for alignment, canting, stepwise propagation
E01B2203/16 (Guiding or measuring means) appears on 121 US grants and 26 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E01B- Granted patents
- 121
- Published applications
- 26
- Assignees
- 43
- Inventors
- 104
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
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| 2024 | 5 | 3 |
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Spike tray head with replaceable wear plates17 Mar 2026US 12,577,735 B2S.W.N.G., Inc.
- Track maintenance machine and method for tamping a track14 Oct 2025US 12,442,140 B2Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M. B. H.
- Track maintenance machine and measurement method for a track maintenance machine22 Jul 2025US 12,366,040 B2Plasser American Corporation
- Method and device for stabilizing a track3 Dec 2024US 12,157,978 B2Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH
- Method and system for monitoring the loading of a tamping unit22 Oct 2024US 12,123,151 B2Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH
- Method and device for determining the longitudinal forces in track rails10 Jul 2025US 2025/0224317 A1Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M. B. H.
- Metal abrasive module for machining rails26 Dec 2024US 2024/0426062 A1RailTechnology GmbH
- Method and system for correcting vertical position defects of a track15 Aug 2024US 2024/0271371 A1Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M. B. H.
- Spike tray head with replaceable wear plates8 Feb 2024US 2024/0044086 A1S.W.N.G., Inc.
- Track maintenance machine and measurement method for a track maintenance machine2 Nov 2023US 2023/0349106 A1Plasser American Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Measuring apparatus for rail head running surface irregularities86US 4,391,134 AFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m. b. H. · 1983
- Automated track location identification using measured track data58US 5,791,063 AEnsco, Inc. · 1998
- Mobile machine for measuring track parameters55US 4,691,565 AFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m. b. H. · 1987
- Apparatus for the non-contact measurement of a track gage49US 5,199,176 AFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m. b. H. · 1993
- Measuring method and device for measuring at least one geometrical characteristic of the head of the rails of a railway track30US 4,417,466 ASpeno International S. A. · 1983