US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on March 24 for "System and method for supporting elevated power rails" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,364, issued on March 24, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"System and method for supporting elevated power rails" was invented by Igor Strashny (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular structure supports elevated rail segments for delivering electrical power to a moving work machine, such as a hauler at a mining site. Opposite ends of a roadside barrier contain complementary tubular couplers arranged vertically. A lower end of a dielectric post positioned in one of the tubular couplers has opposing dielectric plates at an upper end. A top edge of each plate has a creepage conca...