US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for independent checking and healing of positive train control systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,489, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"Systems and methods for independent checking and healing of positive train control systems" was invented by Charles W. Ferrise II (Fort Worth, Texas), Kris D. McManaman (Denton, Texas), Pradeep Kumar Mohan Rao (Fort Worth, Texas) and Kyle W. Ross (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method for monitoring a positive train control system includes receiving a plurality of first mandatory directives from a train authority computing system and receiving a plurality of second mandatory directives from a train bulletin computing system. Th...