ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,763, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).
"Driver's seat for a rail vehicle" was invented by Roland Plabst (Alling, Germany) and Josef Denk (Tegernsee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver's seat for a rail vehicle includes a seat, a frame, a support, a fastening unit and a compressed air line, ensuring compressed-air-assisted functionalities of the driver's seat. The frame supporting the seat is mounted rotatably and connected to a first end of the support permitting the seat to rotate about an axis of the support. A second end of the support is connected to the fastening unit, fastening the se...