US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Aug. 25 for "Method and system for determining the energy consumption of a rail vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,490, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Method and system for determining the energy consumption of a rail vehicle" was invented by Alexander Dorsch (Nuremberg, Germany), Bernd Vangermain (Erlangen, Germany), Martin Jung (Erlangen, Germany) and Tobias Weis (Hausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method determines the energy consumption of a rail vehicle during a test drive. The method includes: a) providing a locomotive system having a brake locomotive component and a test locomotive component, b) providing a test route, c) providing basic data for the test drive having information about the...