ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,597, issued on May 27, was assigned to HANGZHOU ZHEDA JINGYI ELECTROMECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION LIMITED (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for monitoring service state of switch rail based on feature fusion" was invented by Weixu Liu (Hangzhou, China), Zhifeng Tang (Hangzhou, China), Xiang Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Pengfei Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Fuzai Lv (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a service state of a switch rail based on feature fusion includes: mounting an ultrasonic guided wave monitoring apparatus on the switch rail to perform online defect identification and simulation of the switch ...