US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on July 22 for "Unmanned rail vehicle and method of determining its position" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,374, issued on July 22, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Unmanned rail vehicle and method of determining its position" was invented by Harald Staab (Neckargemund, Germany), Daniel Lasko (East Granby, Conn.), Will Eakins (Coventry, Conn.) and Harshang Shah (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned rail vehicle for surveillance, inspection and/or maintenance of an infrastructure, the infrastructure including a rail structure with a rail, the unmanned rail vehicle being movable along the rail and the unmanned rail vehicle including a first position sensor system configured for measuring, by interac...