ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,501, issued on June 9, was assigned to Dellner Couplers AB (Falun, Sweden).
"Coupler for a rail vehicle and rail vehicle with a coupler" was invented by Jacek Skowronek (Gdynia, Poland), Martin Holm (Falun, Sweden) and Tomasz Czerwinski (Chwaszczyno, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupler for coupling a railway vehicle to another railway vehicle, comprising a mounting arm for mounting the coupler to a railway vehicle, a coupling arm, and a joint, wherein the mounting arm and the coupling arm are connected to each other via the joint in such a way that the mounting arm and the coupling arm are movable relative to each other an...