US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on June 16 for "Railroad operations image detection and identification system and method therefor" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,545, issued on June 16, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Railroad operations image detection and identification system and method therefor" was invented by Nicholas Dryer (North Barrington, Ill.), Zachery Bettis (Fort Worth, Texas), Bryan Gabric (Weatherford, Texas), Michael I. Ibanez (McAllen, Texas) and Yasha Hajizeinalibiouki (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing automated asset management are provided. In embodiments, an asset data collector is configured to automatically collect asset data associated with assets in an intermodal facility according to a mission plan. ...