US Patent Issued on March 31 for "Gapless railway diamond: a new type of railway track component providing unbroken running surfaces across the flangeways of an intersecting railway line" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,421, issued on March 31.

"Gapless railway diamond: a new type of railway track component providing unbroken running surfaces across the flangeways of an intersecting railway line" was invented by Paul-Andre Larose (Oshawa, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a railway diamond that allows two intersecting railway lines to cross each other at-grade without incurring discontinuous miming surfaces, thus avoiding the large dynamic impacts normally occurring in traditional railway diamonds. Modified frogs with piston-mounted load-pads located at critical locations can selectively close the inactive flangeways, thus providin...