ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,760, issued on March 11, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH (Vienna).
"Anti-climber device for a rail vehicle" was invented by Philipp Heinzl (Enzenreith, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-climber device for a rail vehicle includes an impact plate having a plurality of protruding formations, wherein the profile of the formations when the anti-climber device is in the installed position is formed as a polygonal curve with a repeating sequence of sections that rise and fall relative to the horizontal, where the extent of the formations above the surface of the impact plate follows a polygonal curve with a repea...