US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE on June 17 for "3D printed manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle" (Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,607, issued on June 17, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Germany).

"3D printed manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle" was invented by Attila Metal (Budapest, Hungary) and Barnabas Kekedi (Godollo, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle comprises at least one conduit for guiding a pneumatic fluid and at least one attachment section for attaching a pneumatic device. The manifold is obtained from a blank that is obtained by an additive manufacturing process. A method for producing a manifold for a pneumatic control panel o...