US Patent Issued to STADLER RAIL on Aug. 25 for "Rail vehicle, method for operating a rail vehicle and use of a traction battery" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,315, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to STADLER RAIL AG (Bussnang, Switzerland).

"Rail vehicle, method for operating a rail vehicle and use of a traction battery" was invented by Thomas Muhlbauer (Winterthur, Switzerland), Markus Spillmann (Horgen, Switzerland), Pierre Fechting (Zurich, Switzerland) and Jorgen Tscheng (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a rail vehicle (1) comprising a first power supply unit (5) which has at least one, preferably at least two, fuel cells (7), at least one fuel storage (8) and a first fuel cell power converter (10). The first fuel cell power converter (10) compri...