ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,075, issued on June 3, was assigned to MATE GmbH (Kirchham bei Vorchdorf, Austria).
"Method for reprofiling at least one rail" was invented by Stefan Hofmann (Steyrermuehl, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a reprofiling method of a rail (2) of a laid rail track (1) during a travel movement of a machining vehicle (13) along a rail track (1) in a section of its running surface (10) located on the rail head (5), a machining unit (14) includes a first and a second machining aggregate (16, 20). In a first machining step, material is removed in a milling process. In this process, a surface corrugation with corrugation crests (18) a...