ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,557, issued on July 1, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).
"Gear case fluid sensor" was invented by Sidarta Beltramin (Curitiba, Brazil), Mateus Augusto Oro Mikowski (Curitiba, Brazil), Luiz De Carvalho (Curitiba, Brazil) and Rafael Grott de Carvalho (Curitiba, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid level sensor is disclosed. The fluid level sensor has a frame which includes a hollow coupling component that attaches to a fluid drain of a gear case of a locomotive. A lug is insertable into the hollow coupling component that has a first connection end, and an elongated flexible sensor blade is attached...