US Patent Issued to HITACHI RAIL STS on Sept. 9 for "Railway vehicle provided with a pantograph and with a control system for raising/lowering such pantograph" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,733, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HITACHI RAIL STS S.P.A. (Naples, Italy).

"Railway vehicle provided with a pantograph and with a control system for raising/lowering such pantograph" was invented by Salvatore Zazzaro (Naples, Italy), Vittorio Rota (Naples, Italy) and Giuseppe Graber (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A railway vehicle is provided with a pantograph movable under the action of a moving device between a raised position, in which it is able to cooperate in contact, in use, with a catenary conductor cable for drawing electrical energy, and a lowered position, in which it is lower than the height where, i...