US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Sept. 8 for "Positive train control simulation system and method therefor" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,505, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"Positive train control simulation system and method therefor" was invented by Nicholas Glen Mason (Garden City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for simulating positive train control (PTC) systems in a local and controlled environment using software and hardware. The system can simulate various functionalities of the PTC system in the environment using software and hardware components. The system can instruct the software of a train management computer (TMC) to control electromechanical valves to simulate air compression on brake pipes in response to the ...