US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Feb. 10 for "Road-guided motor vehicle and method for raising the pantograph of a power collector of a road-guided motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,117, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Road-guided motor vehicle and method for raising the pantograph of a power collector of a road-guided motor vehicle" was invented by Steffen Moelle (Magdeburg, Germany) and Per Wallentin (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road-guided motor vehicle includes a power collector for an overhead line and an actuator arrangement. The power collector is controlled by the actuator arrangement from a first, pantograph-lowered into a second, pantograph-raised position or vice versa. The power collector is assigned a sensor arrangement having a data connec...