US Patent Issued to WENZHOU UNIVERSITY on Dec. 9 for "Method and system for assessing sliding electrical contact performance of electric locomotive pantograph-catenary system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,086, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to WENZHOU UNIVERSITY (Wenzhou, China).

"Method and system for assessing sliding electrical contact performance of electric locomotive pantograph-catenary system" was invented by Fengyi Guo (Wenzhou, China), Xili Wang (Wenzhou, China), Zhiyong Wang (Wenzhou, China) and Zhonghua Chen (Wenzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing sliding electrical contact performance of an electric locomotive pantograph-catenary system includes determining a current manifestation of a catenary-following ability of a pantograph to a catenary of the pantograph-catenary system, wherein the curren...