US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Nov. 3 for "Rail vehicle having central buffer coupling" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,270, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Rail vehicle having central buffer coupling" was invented by Stephan Drexler (Sauerlach, Germany), Ignacio Garcia Francisco (Munich), Marcus Korner (Grossinzemoos, Germany), Jorg Melde (Olching, Germany) and Hannes Peer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail vehicle has a central buffer coupling with a coupling head, a rod-shaped coupling shaft and a spring mechanism. The coupling head connects to a coupling head of another rail vehicle and is connected to the coupling shaft. The shaft is inserted into the spring mechanism and is mounted and fastened therei...