ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,008, issued on May 26, was assigned to OMNITEK PARTNERS LLC (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.).

"Electrical generators for railways" was invented by Jahangir S Rastegar (Stony Brook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for harvesting energy from a train passing over a railroad rail. The method including transferring a deflection of the rail from the train to a mechanical energy storage device; storing mechanical energy provided by the transfer mechanism until a predetermined amount of mechanical energy is stored; transferring the stored mechanical energy to a generator upon the stored mechanical energy reaching the predetermined amount; and ...