• All sections
  • B - Performing operationstransporting
  • B61L - Guiding railway trafficensuring the safety of railway traffic
  • B61L 3/12 - Devices along the route for controlling devices on the vehicle or train, e.g. to release brake or to operate a warning signal at selected places along the route, e.g. intermittent control controlling electrically using magnetic or electrostatic inductionDevices along the route for controlling devices on the vehicle or train, e.g. to release brake or to operate a warning signal at selected places along the route, e.g. intermittent control controlling electrically using radio waves

Patent holdings for IPC class B61L 3/12

Total number of patents in this class: 386

10-year publication summary

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Principal owners for this class

Owner
All patents
This class
Siemens AG
24177
48
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
47683
34
Siemens Mobility GmbH
1844
27
The Nippon Signal Co., Ltd.
57
21
Hitachi, Ltd.
15920
16
Metrom Rail, LLC
54
15
Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
977
13
Kyosan Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.
180
12
General Electric Company
13816
10
GE Global Sourcing LLC
866
10
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, doing business as Toshiba Corporation
6202
10
Cattron North America, Inc.
145
8
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
490
6
Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
661
6
Hitachi Rail GTS Canada Inc.
84
6
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
9034
5
Alstom Holdings
625
4
Siemens Schweiz AG
631
4
Wabtec Holding Corp.
345
4
Siemens Mobility SAS
64
4
Other owners 123