US Patent Issued to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen on Feb. 24 for "Machine and method for stabilising a ballast track" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,889, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna).

"Machine and method for stabilising a ballast track" was invented by Bernhard Antony (Stockerau, Austria), Florian Auer (Vienna) and Fritz Kopf (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a machine for stabilising a track with a ballast bed, comprising a machine frame supported on rail-based running gears and a stabilising unit which can be rolled on rails of the track by means of work unit rollers, and which comprises a vibration exciter for generating a dynamic impact force as well as a loading dev...