ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,870, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).
"Traction coupling" was invented by Minzhe Shi (Braunschweig, Germany), Ioan Deac (Hildesheim, Germany) and Yves Dereymaeker (Adlum-Harsum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction coupling including a coupling rod, a bearing block, and a coupling head supported by the coupling rod. The coupling rod extends in an axial direction from an attachment end to the coupling head, in a region of the attachment end, the coupling head is mounted in a pivotable manner on the bearing block in order to be attached to a rail vehicle. The traction coupling al...