US Patent Issued to Matisa Materiel Industriel on July 28 for "Initial and final methods for laying long rails" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,668, issued on July 28, was assigned to Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A. (Crissier, Switzerland).

"Initial and final methods for laying long rails" was invented by Marco Piller (Hermenches, Switzerland), Jacques Pilet (Vufflens-la-Ville, Switzerland), Marc-Antoine Savoyat (Renens, Switzerland), Milan Stupar (Prilly, Switzerland) and Alain Mundt (Crissier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an initial method for laying new long rails of a railway track by means of a work train travelling in a direction of travel, the initial method being intended to be implemented during a process for replacing old rails of the rai...