ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,389, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sensonic GmbH (Scharding, Austria).
"Method for monitoring a railway track and monitoring system for monitoring a railway track" was invented by Rene Zeilinger (St. Florian am Inn, Austria), Stefan Huber (Perlesreut, Germany), Richard Deetlefs (Rainbach im Innkreis, Austria), Roman Milleder (Zell an der Pram, Austria) and Andreas Ebertseder (Ruhstorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a railway track (11) is provided, the method comprising detecting monitoring signals (MS) by a distributed acoustic sensor (10) being arranged along the track (11), where each monito...