US Patent Issued to ALSTOM Holdings on April 21 for "Method for detecting a lowering of a current collector of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,028, issued on April 21, was assigned to ALSTOM Holdings (St Ouen-sur-Seine, France).

"Method for detecting a lowering of a current collector of a vehicle" was invented by Torsten Miels (Berlin) and Rico Pust (Senzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for detecting a lowering of a current collector of a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, from a contact line, the method comprising: determining values of the electric current intensity of an electric current that is transmitted or flows between the contact line and the current collector in a measuring period; determining values of a current component of t...