US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Aug. 25 for "Railroad engineering asset management systems and methods" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,159, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"Railroad engineering asset management systems and methods" was invented by John David Martin (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A railroad asset inspection management system includes a plurality of remote terminals each having a user interface and a remote local database. A server includes a server database partitioned into a plurality of database partitions each associated with a territory of a railroad track system. When a remote terminal establishes a connection with the server, the server transmits changes in work orders stored in the server database partitio...