US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on April 7 for "Rail vehicle with fully integrated wheelchair zone" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,200, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Rail vehicle with fully integrated wheelchair zone" was invented by Martin Dombrowsky (Cologne, Germany), Florian Kemper (Heiden, Germany) and Ulrich Klein (Meerbusch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail vehicle for transporting passengers includes at least one wheelchair zone, at least one boarding door, at least one sanitary unit, and at least one galley. The sanitary unit and the galley are disposed between the boarding door and the wheelchair zone. An aisle or path, which is configured to be adequate for wheelchair use, leads from the boarding door...