US Patent Issued to VOESTALPINE SCHIENEN on March 24 for "Track part and method for producing a track part" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,184, issued on March 24, was assigned to VOESTALPINE SCHIENEN GMBH (Leoben, Austria).

"Track part and method for producing a track part" was invented by Christoph Kammerhofer (Leoben, Austria) and Hans Peter Brantner (Leoben, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a track part, in particular a low-alloy steel rail for rail vehicles, the steel comprises, in the rail head of the track part, a ferrite portion of 5-15 vol %, an austenite portion of 5-20 vol %, a martensite portion of 5-20 vol %, and a portion of carbide-free bainite of 55-75 vol %."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/343,336.

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