ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,338, issued on May 20, was assigned to Polycorp Ltd. (Elora, Canada).
"One-piece rail boot with integrated flangeway former" was invented by Matthew Thomas Bigger (Elora, Canada) and Marco Leone (Elora, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail boot for encasing preselected engagement portions of a rail, including a base segment, for encasing a rail foot of the rail, and field and gauge side segments connected with the base segment. The field and gauge side segments are for encasing the field and gauge sides of a rail web of the rail respectively. Also, the field side segment is formed for encasing a first preselected portion of t...