Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
4 patents granted to the name below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to FreightCar America, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
4
4 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
7
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name1 counted
FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
7 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Feb 14, 2023 | 11,577,762 | Open top hopper railcar with lading shedding top chord and corner cap and integrated door operating controls with manual override | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. |
| Jan 1, 2013 | 8,342,105 | Open top hopper railcar with lading shedding top chord and corner cap and integrated door operating controls with manual override | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. |
| Jun 7, 2011 | 7,954,437 | Railroad well car with open truss sides | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. |
| Nov 16, 2010 | 7,832,340 | Hopper railcar with automatic individual door system | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 3, 2013 | 2013/0255533 | MULTI-UNIT INTERMODAL RAILROAD WELL CAR WITH SAFETY PLATFORM AND HANDBRAKE | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. · patent 8,950,341 granted from it |
| Jun 27, 2013 | 2013/0160670 | Open Top Hopper Railcar with Lading Shedding Top Chord and Corner Cap and Integrated Door Operating Controls with Manual Override | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. · patent 9,669,845 granted from it |
| Feb 7, 2013 | 2013/0032055 | Side Contoured Open Top Hopper Railcar with Biased Door Seal and Enlarged Contoured End Door | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. · patent 8,640,631 granted from it |
| Jun 7, 2012 | 2012/0137925 | RAILROAD WELL CAR WITH OPEN TRUSS SIDES | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. · patent 8,757,067 granted from it |
| Jul 28, 2011 | 2011/0179969 | Open Top Hopper Railcar with Lading Shedding Top Chord and Corner Cap and Integrated Door Operating Controls with Manual Override | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. · patent 8,342,105 granted from it |
| Nov 20, 2008 | 2008/0282929 | RAILROAD WELL CAR WITH OPEN TRUSS SIDES | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. · patent 7,954,437 granted from it |
| Aug 2, 2007 | 2007/0175357 | HOPPER RAILCAR WITH AUTOMATIC INDIVIDUAL DOOR SYSTEM | Transport | FREIGHTCAR AMERICA, INC. · patent 7,832,340 granted from it |
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.