ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,523, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).
"Method for detecting a malfunction of a monitoring system" was invented by Fabian Wennekamp (Essen, Germany), Markus Knoll (Muhlhausen, Germany) and Robert Mertens (Meerbusch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a malfunction of a monitoring system which is used for monitoring the running stability of a rail vehicle during operation of the rail vehicle in a monitoring operating range, includes using an acceleration sensor of the monitoring system to generate a signal during operation of the rail vehicle. In a test using a variable that ...