US Patent Issued to MAX BOEGL STIFTUNG & Co. on Feb. 3 for "Switch arrangement for a track-borne vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,441, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MAX BOEGL STIFTUNG & Co. KG (Sengenthal, Germany).

"Switch arrangement for a track-borne vehicle" was invented by Stefan Porten (Augsburg, Germany), Stefan Boegl (Sengenthal, Germany) and Bert Zamzow (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch arrangement for a track-borne vehicle has at least two articulatedly interconnected switch segments mounted so as to be movable with respect to a base surface. At least one switch segment has a drive. At least two switch segments are interconnected by means of an articulation, which has at least two degrees of rotational freedom. The articul...