ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,266, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ELONROAD AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Contact member for collecting power from an electric road track" was invented by Dan Zethraeus (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact member for a power collector of an electric road vehicle, the contact member being configured to be mounted to a first end of an arm of the power collector, the contact member comprising: a support structure; a conductive pick up comprising a braided strip, the conductive pick up being mounted to the support structure."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2021, under Application No. 18/000,293.

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