MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517030147 A) filed by Siemens Mobility Gmbh, Munchen, Germany, on March 28, for 'current collector with interruption monitoring.'

Inventor(s) include Sanger, Goran.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a current collector (4) for an electrically driven vehicle for feeding-in electrical energy from an overhead line system (3). The current collector comprises a contact strip (7) for electrically contacting a contact wire (2), the contact strip having a sliding piece (9) supported by a sliding piece holder (...