ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,762, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Conductix-Wampfler GmbH (Weil am Rhein, Germany).
"Current collector and conductor line system" was invented by Moritz Hagin (Weil am Rhein, Germany) and Matthias Wenk (Efringen-Kirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current collector for electrically supplying an electrical load which is movable along a conductor line. The current collector has a fastening element and at least one sliding contact with an elongate sliding contact surface, which extends in a longitudinal direction, for sliding contact with an electrically conducting line profile, which extends in the longitudinal direct...