US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on June 23 for "System and method for optimizing utilization of hostler resources of a hub based on a dual-stream resource optimization" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,178, issued on June 23, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"System and method for optimizing utilization of hostler resources of a hub based on a dual-stream resource optimization" was invented by Dasaradh R. Mallampati (Trophy Club, Texas), Vishal Badyal (Haslet, Texas), Paul Kuhn (Fort Worth, Texas) and April Y. Kuo (Colleyville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for optimizing utilization of hostlers of a hub based on a dual-stream resource optimization (DSRO). In embodiments, a dual-stream optimization model is utilized, incorporating a consolidated time-space network and a deconsolida...