Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
30 patents granted to the 2 names 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 Union Pacific Corp.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
30
30 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 2 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
28
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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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
Transport3
Civil engineering2
Computer technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
20 publishedUNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
8 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 19, 2024 | 12,146,270 | Rail tie plate distribution system | Civil engineering | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Aug 13, 2024 | 12,060,094 | Managing, monitoring, and validating train consists | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Oct 3, 2023 | 11,775,278 | Systems and methods for automated traffic control update | Computer technology | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Feb 1, 2022 | 11,235,788 | Wayside railway sensor package and method for application | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Jan 18, 2022 | 11,225,758 | Automated railroad tie unloading | Civil engineering | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Jun 15, 2021 | 11,034,368 | Conditioned air distribution ceiling plenum | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Apr 2, 2019 | 10,246,106 | Flooring incorporating open and enclosed air ducts | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Dec 5, 2017 | 9,836,893 | Computing and tracking locomotive health | Control | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Oct 24, 2017 | 9,796,347 | Maintenance of a minimum voltage to equipment in rail vehicle | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Mar 14, 2017 | 9,592,841 | Cumulative inertial tractive effort | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 6, 2025 | 2025/0075440 | RAIL TIE PLATE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | Civil engineering | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Aug 4, 2022 | 2022/0242470 | MANAGING, MONITORING, AND VALIDATING TRAIN CONSISTS | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY · patent 12,060,094 granted from it |
| Oct 31, 2019 | 2019/0329797 | CONDITIONED AIR DISTRIBUTION CEILING PLENUM | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY · patent 11,034,368 granted from it |
| Feb 2, 2017 | 2017/0028998 | FLOORING INCORPORATING OPEN AND ENCLOSED AIR DUCTS | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY · patent 10,246,106 granted from it |
| Nov 17, 2016 | 2016/0335239 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMPLETING A FORM USING A DEVICE | Computer technology | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Oct 20, 2016 | 2016/0305595 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING AND ISOLATING FUEL LEAKS IN A VEHICLE | Mechanical elements | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY · patent 9,546,752 granted from it |
| Oct 6, 2016 | 2016/0292931 | COMPUTING AND TRACKING LOCOMOTIVE HEALTH | Control | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY · patent 9,836,893 granted from it |
| Sep 1, 2016 | 2016/0251025 | CUMULATIVE INERTIAL TRACTIVE EFFORT | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY · patent 9,592,841 granted from it |
| Oct 8, 2015 | 2015/0285264 | AIR COMPRESSOR WITH SELF CONTAINED COOLING SYSTEM | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Jul 9, 2015 | 2015/0191134 | Maintenance of a Minimum Voltage to Equipment in Rail Vehicle | Transport | UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY · patent 9,796,347 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Civil engineering 1.
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.