US Patent Issued to Faiveley Transport Italia on Feb. 4 for "Supervising device for monitoring the operation of an anti-slip device of a railway braking system" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,762, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Faiveley Transport Italia S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Supervising device for monitoring the operation of an anti-slip device of a railway braking system" was invented by Roberto Tione (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supervising device for monitoring the operation of an anti-slip device is described; the supervising device is arranged to: acquire estimated instantaneous linear speeds associated with axles controlled by the anti-slip device; compare the estimated instantaneous linear speeds with a linear reference speed; monitor the state of the pressures to the brake cylinders; determin...