ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,735, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich) and Scania CV AB (Soedertaeljie, Sweden).
"Vehicle with current collector" was invented by Helge Molthan (Bad Feilnbach, Germany), Holger Sommer (Aurachtal, Germany), Henrik Engdahl (Askim, Sweden) and Christer Thoren (Haegersten, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle has a current collector for feeding traction energy from a two-pole overhead contact line system, an electric or hybrid electric traction drive, and an electric energy storage device for temporarily storing fed traction energy. A first line branch can connect the traction drive to the curr...