US Patent Issued to Beijing Jiaotong University on Nov. 11 for "Real-time detecting system for the mechanical quality state of ballast bed based on tamping car" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,209, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Beijing Jiaotong University (Beijing).

"Real-time detecting system for the mechanical quality state of ballast bed based on tamping car" was invented by Liang Gao (Beijing), Shunwei Shi (Beijing), Hui Yin (Beijing), Xiaopei Cai (Beijing), Meng Xu (Beijing), Hong Xiao (Beijing), Bowen Hou (Beijing), Yanglong Zhong (Beijing), Yixiong Xiao (Beijing) and Ji Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a track lining apparatus and two tamping apparatuses arranged in parallel, wherein the track lining apparatus includes two track lining hydro-cylinders, and the track lining hydro-...