US Patent Issued to One Rail Group on Nov. 11 for "Automated geometry and crowning apparatus for use of mobile electric flash-butt welding of railroad rails and rail inserts" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,008, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to One Rail Group LLC (Dallas).

"Automated geometry and crowning apparatus for use of mobile electric flash-butt welding of railroad rails and rail inserts" was invented by Kris Koski (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Mobile Electric Flash-Butt (EFB) Welding apparatus that incorporates an automated geometry system which creates field/mobile EFB welds with proper vertical alignment, within a definable distance. The system has a first pair of adjustable reference points on a left side of a mobile welding apparatus. The system has a second pair of adjustable reference points on the right side ...