US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction G.m.b.H. on Oct. 7 for "Connection system for monorail beams" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,473, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction G.m.b.H. (Zeltweg, Austria).

"Connection system for monorail beams" was invented by Hubert Rieger (Mobersdorf-Siedlung, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection system arranged for connecting a first monorail beam to a second monorail beam includes upper connection means and lower connection means. The lower connection means is configured to support the second beam from below and the upper connection means is configured to be connected by movement of the second monorail beam downwards relative to the first monorail beam, wherein the upper connector limit...