US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Sept. 29 for "Power assembly crab plate for engine" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,712, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Power assembly crab plate for engine" was invented by Swathi Kashi (Downers Grove, Ill.), Shannon W. Omori (Evanston, Ill.) and Raji Rexavier (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crab plate for securing a power assembly of an engine includes a body having a length direction oriented with respect to a central longitudinal plane, a width direction normal to the central longitudinal plane, and a thickness direction extending between a top surface and a bottom surface of the body. The body further including a generally double-arrow sh...