US Patent Issued to ALSTOM Holdings on March 3 for "Railway vehicle with collision-protecting crushable areas" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,245, issued on March 3, was assigned to ALSTOM Holdings (Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France).

"Railway vehicle with collision-protecting crushable areas" was invented by Dominique Marcel Jacques Le-Corre (Val de Moder-Pfaffenhoffen, France) and Adrien Boulay (Saint Ouen, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A railway vehicle includes a carbody frame which includes a roof, a bottom side opposed to and spaced apart from the roof, two opposite sides, a front end face, and a rear end face opposite to the front end face. The roof, the bottom side, the two opposite sides and the front and rear end faces delimit altogether an inner space. One or...