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G01M 17/08

Railway vehicles

Introduced: January 1995

Last revised: January 2006

Full Title

Testing of vehicles > Railway vehicles

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
MEASURING; TESTING
Subclass:
TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Filing statistics

IPC G01M 17/08 belongs to the parent subclass G01M, which recorded 339,843 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 15,255 in 2013 to 47,565 in 2023 (+212%). The most active applicants in class G01 are SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) (41,447 applications), CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (32,952 applications) and ROBERT BOSCH (16,470 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Related Keywords

testing of RAILWAY(S),RAILROAD(S) vehiclesTESTING of railway vehiclestesting of railway VEHICLES

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Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G01, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 41,447
  2. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 32,952
  3. ROBERT BOSCH DE 16,470
  4. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 10,052
  5. SINOPEC (CHINA PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION) 9,573
  6. ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY 9,529
  7. GUANGDONG POWER GRID CORPORATION 8,615
  8. TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY 7,805
  9. HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES GROUP US 7,796
  10. QUALCOMM US 7,171