ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,145, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).
"Device for supplying energy to a sensor arrangement in a rail vehicle" was invented by Franz Meierhoefer (Kirchensittenbach, Germany), Simon Matthias Wokusch (Erlangen, Germany) and Juergen Goetz (Hoechstadt/Aisch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device supplies energy to a sensor arrangement in a rail vehicle. The device has a housing in which there is arranged a coil which can be inductively coupled to a motor cable carrying an alternating current. The housing is embodied to enclose part of a length of the motor cable, and the coil is wound around an ...