ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,268, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STADLER RAIL AG (Bussnang, Switzerland).

"Rail vehicle comprising a powerpack with a fuel cell and a fuel tank" was invented by Stefan Jenni (Winterthur, Switzerland), Marc Wagniere (Winterthur, Switzerland), Fabian Suter (Rothenhausen, Switzerland), Thomas Kagi (Widnau, Switzerland), Beat Schmid (Kesswil, Switzerland), Stefan Bernsdorf (Winterthur, Switzerland), Markus Weber (Sevelen, Switzerland), Robert Jones (Dornbirn, Austria), Chee Wee Toh (Zurich, Switzerland) and David Williams (Burglen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rail vehicle (1) comprising a fi...