ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,747, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RailRestore BV RailRestore Holding BV (Bavel, Netherlands).
"Mobile waterjet rail repair system" was invented by Joep Jacobs (PB Breda, Netherlands) and Johannes Petrus Bernardus Wildhagen (Molenschol, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A translatable, high pressure liquid jet system for a rail cleaning or surface treatment operation, the system comprising: a translatable frame configured to maintain mechanical contact with a rail; a liquid jet processing head affixed to the frame and configured to maintain a distance from the rail and provide a liquid jet that contacts the rail; a high...