ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,514, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Talent Power Ltd. (N.T., Hong Kong).

"Rail damper mounting apparatus and rail damper systems containing the same" was invented by Tsz Fung Dominic Tse (N.T., Hong Kong) and Wai Lun Ho (N.T., Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail damper mounting apparatus including a clipping device adapted to clip onto a rail, and a mounting device adapted to allow an oscillator to secure thereto. The rail damper mounting apparatus forms at least three clipping points with a rail when the rail damper mounting device is installed to the rail. A rail damping system containing one or more such rail damper ...