US Patent Issued to WABTEC Hauts-de-France on Nov. 25 for "Control mechanism for a rail system, rail system provided with such a mechanism and rail vehicle provided with such a system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,408, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to WABTEC Hauts-de-France (Amiens, France).

"Control mechanism for a rail system, rail system provided with such a mechanism and rail vehicle provided with such a system" was invented by Claudino Goncalves (Ribeaucourt, France), Denis Gerber-Papin (I'Etoile, France) and Emmanuel Orlando (Sin le Noble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a control mechanism (105) configured to equip a rail system and including a casing (106) from which a control rod (109) projects, configured to be mechanically and securely connected to a control cable (107) actuatable at a distance from ...