US Patent Issued to MATISA MATERIEL INDUSTRIEL on Feb. 3 for "Methods for locating points or lines of interest on a railway track, positioning and driving an intervention machine on a railway track" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,902, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MATISA MATERIEL INDUSTRIEL S.A. (Crissier, Switzerland).

"Methods for locating points or lines of interest on a railway track, positioning and driving an intervention machine on a railway track" was invented by Milan Stupar (Prilly, Switzerland) and Youcef Chinoune (Gex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to locate points or lines of interest A, B, C, D on a railway track 22, by means of a railway locating system 12 comprising a linear camera 26 and an odometer 28 progressing on the railway track 22 in a direction of progression 100, the odometer 28, repeatedly acquires instantaneous ...