US Patent Issued to Faiveley Transport Italia on July 1 for "System for determining a wheel-rail adhesion value for a railway vehicle" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,639, issued on July 1, was assigned to Faiveley Transport Italia S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).

"System for determining a wheel-rail adhesion value for a railway vehicle" was invented by Matteo Frea (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining an adhesion value between wheel and rail for a railway vehicle is described, comprising an optical information acquisition means arranged to acquire optical information from the rail, a database arranged to store the acquired optical information in at least a learning phase and to associate said information with a relevant real wheel-rail adhesion value measured at the moment of...