ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,505, issued on March 4, was assigned to SCANMASTER SYSTEMS (IRT) LTD. (Kfar Saba, Israel).
"Low maintenance rail monitoring probe" was invented by Michael Bron (Petach Tikva, Israel), Slava Sigalov (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Rostislav Friedman (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic probe for non-destructive testing of a rail, said probe comprising a housing; an insert comprising an ultrasonic transducer and a polycarbonate shoe having a face for contacting a rail; and a compressed spring for exerting a downward force on said insert; the system further comprising a plate with a restraining flange around an aperture t...