ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,524, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canadian Pacific Railway Co. (Calgary, Canada).
"Electric-powered locomotive apparatus and method" was invented by Kyle R. Mulligan (Calgary, Canada), Gary Wong (Calgary, Canada), Matthew Findlay (Calgary, Canada), Milan Dubinsky (Calgary, Canada), Veronika Kowalczyk (Calgary, Canada), Minh Nguyen (Calgary, Canada), Cody Fischer (Calgary, Canada) and Soon Chang (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locomotive has DC or AC traction motors, powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, and optionally other sources such as regenerative braking. The traction motors of the locomotive may be connected...