US Patent Issued to FAIVELEY TRANSPORT ITALIA on May 26 for "Method and system for verifying the operation of braking means of at least one vehicle, and system for measuring the friction force" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,053, issued on May 26, was assigned to FAIVELEY TRANSPORT ITALIA S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Method and system for verifying the operation of braking means of at least one vehicle, and system for measuring the friction force" was invented by Roberto Tione (Turin, Italy), Matteo Frea (Turin, Italy) and Angelo Grasso (Asti, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying the operation of braking means of at least one vehicle, in particular a railway vehicle, is described, comprising the steps of: a) imposing a braking force on at least one wheel of the at least one axle of the at least one vehicle; b) towing the at least one veh...