US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Sept. 29 for "System and method for railroad directive management" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,956, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"System and method for railroad directive management" was invented by Christopher Neil Pickard (Argyle, Texas), Kyle Keilty Williams (Fort Worth, Texas), Greg Harrison (Fort Worth, Texas) and James Helm (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for railroad directive management is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to a directive, track segments, and/or vehicle events on the track and/or track segments. Vehicle- and/or event-specific data can be compared with one or more thresholds, including force thresholds, temporal thresholds, envi...