US Patent Issued to Trackmobile on Jan. 13 for "Mechanical coupling in automated gladhand system" (Illinois, Georgia, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,261, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Trackmobile LLC (LaGrange, Ga.).

"Mechanical coupling in automated gladhand system" was invented by James Geist (Inverness, Ill.), Phuc Nguyen (Papillion, Neb.), Jason Smid (Chicago), Vince Difatta (Wood Dale, Ill.) and Bob Evans (LaGrange, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A claw system for mechanical coupling a railcar mover to a railcar is disclosed herein. The claw assembly may comprise a set of arms and a set of claws each mounted on the interior side of one of the set of arms. When a railcar adjacent to a railcar mover on a set of tracks is positioned within a proximity of the railcar mo...