US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Sept. 9 for "System and method of railroad track data aggregation and analysis for determining inspection frequency" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,873, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"System and method of railroad track data aggregation and analysis for determining inspection frequency" was invented by Adam L. Miller (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for minimizing safety hazards along a railroad track by optimizing visual railroad inspection frequency based on acquired data relating to railroad safety maintenance. The system and method can provide various rating systems for the railroad assets to optimize railroad inspections by focusing the inspections to railroad assets experiencing suboptimal con...