US Patent Issued to MATISA MATERIEL INDUSTRIEL on April 22 for "Method for fixing a rail of a rail track with thermal conditioning of a rail portion, and associated rail machine" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,370, issued on April 22, was assigned to MATISA MATERIEL INDUSTRIEL S.A. (Crissier, Switzerland).

"Method for fixing a rail of a rail track with thermal conditioning of a rail portion, and associated rail machine" was invented by Marc-Antoine Savoyat (Renens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to fix a rail of a rail track using a rail machine, the rail machine is moved in a working direction so that at all times a portion of the rail which is not attached to a cross-member of the rail track passes through a thermal conditioning zone of a thermal conditioning device of the rail machine, a temperature of a surface regi...