US Patent Issued to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen on Sept. 29 for "System for working on a track" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,542, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna).

"System for working on a track" was invented by Thomas Philipp (Leonding, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for working on a track with a track maintenance machine has a machine controller and a work unit controlled thereby, with sensors being arranged to monitor the work unit. In this context, the sensors are coupled to a data acquisition module for the separate recording of sensor data, with the data acquisition module being connected to a computing unit in which a first algorithm for calculating resul...