US Patent Issued to Herzog Services on April 29 for "Utility body for housing system for detecting defects in rail" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,142, issued on April 29, was assigned to Herzog Services Inc. (St. Joseph, Mo.).

"Utility body for housing system for detecting defects in rail" was invented by John W. Kieser (Platte City, Mo.), Brent T. Applebury (St. Joseph, Mo.) and Andy White (Savannah, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment housing assembly removably securable to a hi-rail vehicle operable to advance along first and second rails of a railroad track includes a housing that houses and/or supports at least one rail sensor. The at least one rail sensor is operable to sense at least one property of at least one of the first and second rails as the hi-rail ve...