ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,178, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Thales Management & Services Deutschland GmbH (Ditzingen, Germany).
"Rail-monitoring element, method for mounting a rail-monitoring element, and method for manufacturing a rail-monitoring element" was invented by Kai Schicker (Mehltheuer, Germany) and Stefan Solleder (Gerlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail-monitoring element includes a carrier on which a strain sensor is attached. The strain sensor may be an optical fiber having a fiber Bragg grating. The carrier has an adhesive layer for adhesive attachment to a rail having a thermally activatable or thermally curable adhesiv...