US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Aug. 26 for "End of train device with self-alignment and mounting integrity monitoring capabilities" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,834, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Inc. (New York).

"End of train device with self-alignment and mounting integrity monitoring capabilities" was invented by Mario Fernandes (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Harsh Piparsaniya (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end of train device (EOT) suitable of use on a railway vehicle includes a mounting unit for installation on a car of a railway vehicle, a position sensor configured to detect vertical alignment and orientation during the installation, and a feedback mechanism configured to provide feedback during the installation with respect to the vertical align...