US Patent Issued to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen on Oct. 14 for "Track maintenance machine and method for tamping a track" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,140, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna).

"Track maintenance machine and method for tamping a track" was invented by Samuel Wollanek (Pregarten, Austria) and Johannes Max-Theurer (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a track maintenance machine for tamping a track having sleepers supported in a ballast bed with rails fitted to the same, with a machine frame that is mobile on on-track undercarriages and with a tamping unit. Wherein a camera for transmitting real-time images to an output means is arranged upstream of the tamping unit in a ...