Control of undesirable vegetation on roads or similar surfaces or permanent ways
Official title: Control of undesirable vegetation on roads {or similar surfaces} or permanent ways of railways, {e.g. devices for scorching weeds or for applying herbicides}(destruction of undesirable vegetation in general A01M7/00 - A01M15/00, A01M21/00; weeding involving working the ballast E01B27/00; mowers for embankments A01D34/86; hedge shearing machines A01G3/04); Applying liquids, e.g. water, weed-killer bitumen, to permanent ways (specially to rails E01H8/10 {E01H8/105, E01H8/125}; for preserving sleepers E01B31/20)
E01H11/00 (Control of undesirable vegetation on roads or similar surfaces or permanent ways) appears on 54 US grants and 43 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E01H- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 43
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 89
- Latest grant
- 29 Jul 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Setup for constructing a weed map75US 8,107,681 B2G & G Növényvédelmi és Kereskedelmi K ft. · 2012
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- Roadside spray apparatus28US 4,315,602 ACibolo Manufacturing Company · 1982
- Methods, systems, apparatus and rotor for applying granular material25US 5,024,356 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1991