ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,326, issued on June 3, was assigned to DMA S.r.l. (Turin, Italy).

"System, a vehicle and a method for the detection of position and geometry of line infrastructures, particularly for a railway line" was invented by Riccardo Maggiora (Turin, Italy) and Sara Salvador (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system and method for line infrastructures of a railway line includes: at least one electromagnetic-wave detection device having at least one transceiver antenna, the electromagnetic-wave detection device being configured for emitting electromagnetic waves towards a line infrastructure by means said at least one trans...