E01B 29/16
Transporting, laying, removing, or replacing rails
Official title: Transporting, laying, removing, or replacing rails; Moving rails placed on sleepers in the track (E01B29/05 takes precedence; moving or tilting heavy loads in general B65G7/00)
E01B29/16 (Transporting, laying, removing, or replacing rails) appears on 90 US grants and 77 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E01B- Granted patents
- 90
- Published applications
- 77
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 162
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
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| 2022 | 5 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 5 |
| 2024 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Initial and final methods for laying long rails28 Jul 2026US 12,692,668 B2Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A.
- Rail tie handling system and method23 Jun 2026US 12,662,777 B2Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
- Track disassembling device19 May 2026US 12,630,239 B2Huaneng Yimin Coal-Power Co., Ltd.
- Railroad tie handler31 Mar 2026US 12,590,422 B2
- Process and system for pole and conductor installation for charging while moving13 Jan 2026US 12,522,109 B2Caterpillar Inc.
- Regression of Rail Alignments from Survey Points16 Apr 2026US 2026/0103852 A1Autodesk, Inc.
- Battery operated lift jack for railways26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084943 A1FTS Tools, LLC
- Rail handling tool11 Dec 2025US 2025/0376356 A1Caterpillar Inc.
- Low profile rail clamp assembly21 Aug 2025US 2025/0263892 A1Herzog Railroad Services, Inc.
- Replacement rail support device17 Jul 2025US 2025/0230612 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of welding continuous rails and apparatus therefor25US 4,414,454 AH. A. Schlatter AG · 1983
- Apparatus for replacing rail fastening elements and, optionally, rails19US 4,393,784 AFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m. b. H. · 1983
- Device for the substitution of the rails of railway tracks18US 5,181,472 ALes Fils d'Auguste Scheuchzer S. A. · 1993
- Rail loading train for transporting as well as loading and unloading long rails17US 5,630,365 AGeorg Robel GmbH & Co. · 1997
- Method and apparatus for unloading ribbon rails from rail cars17US 6,981,452 B2Herzog Contracting Corp. · 2006