US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility Austria on March 17 for "Electrical contacting apparatus for a current collector of a vehicle, current collector and vehicle" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,723, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH (Vienna).

"Electrical contacting apparatus for a current collector of a vehicle, current collector and vehicle" was invented by Christian Saliger (Vienna), Clemens Smejkal (Auersthal, Austria) and Christopher Flois (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical contacting apparatus for the current collector of a vehicle, includes at least an electrical first contact body that is coupled via at least a first spring apparatus to at least a first bearing apparatus, wherein the at least first bearing apparatus is connectable to a current collector linkage or to...