US Patent Issued to Stadler Rail on Feb. 17 for "Rail vehicle with dilation profile, method of manufacturing a rail vehicle and dilation profile" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,421, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Stadler Rail AG (Bussnang, Switzerland).

"Rail vehicle with dilation profile, method of manufacturing a rail vehicle and dilation profile" was invented by Benedetto Castelli (Buchs, Switzerland), Andreas Gmur (Heiden, Switzerland) and Dominik Klausler (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rail vehicle having a car body comprising an upper level and a lower level separated by an intermediate floor. The intermediate floor comprises at least two intermediate floor elements, the intermediate floor elements being arranged one behind the other in the longi...