US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for detecting tanks in railway environments" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,670, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"Systems and methods for detecting tanks in railway environments" was invented by Andrea Leticia Arias Llorenty (Fort Worth, Texas), Sandra N. Green (Arlington, Texas), Rucha D. Jani (Fort Worth, Texas), David Matthew King (Fort Worth, Texas), Doug McReynolds (Dallas), Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh (Keller, Texas), Stephanie Ortiz Watkins (Krum, Texas), Nathaniel Richmond (Frisco, Texas), Xiaoyan Si (Kirkland, Wash.), Je Sang Sung (Fort Worth, Texas) and Anpeng Zhang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, by an image detection tool...