US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Oct. 27 for "Intermodal inventory management systems and methods" (Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,909, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"Intermodal inventory management systems and methods" was invented by Edward N. Ginn (Grand Prairie, Texas), Donald R. Dunn (Colleyville, Texas), Joyce L. Verslype (Frisco, Texas), Gregory E. Kolesar (Fort Worth, Texas) and Mitchel Varela (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method includes accessing yard check data received from a plurality of sources. The yard check data includes a unit identification number of a particular shipping container of a plurality of shipping containers, a location of the particular shipping container with...