US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Oct. 20 for "System and method for optimizing utilization of parking lot resources of a hub based on a dual-stream resource optimization" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,197, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"System and method for optimizing utilization of parking lot 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 parking lots of a hub based on a dual-stream resource optimization (DSRO). In embodiments, an optimized operating schedule over a planning horizon may be obtained, including predictions of units arriving at the hub t...