US Patent Issued to Trackmobile on Feb. 17 for "Air hose coupling in automated gladhand system" (Illinois, Georgia, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,557, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Trackmobile LLC (LaGrange, Ga.).

"Air hose coupling in automated gladhand system" was invented by James Geist (Inverness, Ill.), Phuc Nguyen (Papillion, Neb.), Jason Smid (Chicago), Vince Difatta (Wood Dale, Ill.) and Bob Evans (LaGrange, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gladhand device for automatically coupling the air brake hose of a railcar to a railcar mover is disclosed herein. The automated gladhand device may comprise a gladhand body that is attached to the end of a railcar mover and configured to receive the gladhand attached to an air brake hose of a railcar. In various embodiment...