ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,938, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TRACK MACHINES CONNECTED GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H. (Linz, Austria).

"Distributed and open database for the dynamic capture of the railway line network and elements associated therewith" was invented by Jochen Nowotny (Gaaden bei Modling, Austria), Dominic Winkler (Gerasdorf bei Wien, Austria), Karl Kernstock (Linz, Austria) and Benjamin Stuntner (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for creating a database for recording a railway line including objects, wherein first measurement values and second measurement values, which measurement values include measurement value attributes created by...