US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Aug. 25 for "Method and device for measuring a parameter relevant to the journey of a rail vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,487, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Method and device for measuring a parameter relevant to the journey of a rail vehicle" was invented by Minyi Yu (Maisach, Germany), Werner Breuer (Munich), Steffen Jennek (Neuried, Germany) and Martin Jung (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a parameter relevant to a journey of a rail vehicle. A parameter measurement value is determined using a control loop. A vehicle-side torque acting on a rotational part on the vehicle side is ascertained. A calculation module uses the vehicle-side torque value and a frictional engagement ...