ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,763, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SCHUNK TRANSIT SYSTEMS GMBH (Wettenberg, Germany).
"Current collector and method for power transmission" was invented by Oliver Borchardt (Buseck, Germany), Tamer Yildirim (Altenstadt, Germany), Peter Schneider (Fronhausen, Germany) and Martin Sommer (Weimar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current collector and a method for transferring energy from a conductor rail to a vehicle by means of a current collector, the current collector comprising a carrying device, a contact pressing device and a sliding piece which forms a sliding contact surface, the carrying device for mounting the curre...