US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI RAILCAR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 3 for "Fastener-monitoring device, fastener-monitoring system, and fastener-monitoring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,272, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KAWASAKI RAILCAR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Fastener-monitoring device, fastener-monitoring system, and fastener-monitoring method" was invented by Yusuke Nishio (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener monitoring device monitoring a fastener of a track on which a railroad car runs includes a processing unit calculating a total number of fastening of the fastener or a total number of detachment of the fastener per unit length of the track as an index value indicating a fastening state of the fastener in the track based on running data of the railroad car and fastening st...