US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for efficiently switching railcars in a railroad yard" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,826, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"Systems and methods for efficiently switching railcars in a railroad yard" was invented by Thomas Clark Simmons (Trophy Club, Texas), April Y. Kuo (Colleyville, Texas), Kevin Crook (Fort Worth, Texas), Dasaradh R. Mallampati (Trophy Club, Texas), Vishal Badyal (Haslet, Texas) and Paul Kuhn (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for switching railcars at a railroad yard includes accessing a list of selected railcars for an outgoing train. The method further includes generating a plurality of train consists that each comply with a set of train rules. The method...