US Patent Issued to Faiveley Transport Italia on Dec. 9 for "Control system for a railway convoy, particularly for the transport of goods" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,920, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Faiveley Transport Italia S.p.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Control system for a railway convoy, particularly for the transport of goods" was invented by Angelo Grasso (Asti, Italy), Roberto Tione (Turin, Italy) and Roberto Correndo (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system is described for a railway convoy, particularly for the transport of goods, comprising wagons, a master locomotive and at least one slave locomotive. The railway convoy comprises a brake pipe which extends along the entire railway convoy. The master locomotive is arranged to control the pressure in the brake pipe and...