US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Feb. 10 for "Reconfigurable PCB for brake operation of exit and entrance crossing gate mechanism" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,307, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Inc. (New York).

"Reconfigurable PCB for brake operation of exit and entrance crossing gate mechanism" was invented by Leah Chowenhill (Pittsburgh), Quinton Reed (Oil City, Pa.) and Daniel Spencer (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crossing gate mechanism (300) with a PCB reconfigurable for exit and entrance gate mode, the mechanism including a brake and a brake relay (312) coupled to an electric motor (320), the mechanisms being configured to operate a crossing gate arm of a crossing gate. The mechanism includes a configuration logic circuit (310) connected to the br...