ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,487, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Vossloh Fastening Systems GmbH (Werdohl, Germany).

"Bridge for a rail vehicle and method for assembling a bridge beam on such a bridge" was invented by Adrian Bednarczyk (Ludenscheid, Germany) and Winfried Bosterling (Neuenrade, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge for a rail vehicle, including a track, which is formed from two parallel rails for being driven on by the rail vehicle, and including a bridge beam, which supports the rails of the track and is aligned transversely to a support profile of the bridge. The bridge beam is supported by a height adjustment element arranged betw...