US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 30 for "System and method for controlling locomotive" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,287, issued on June 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for controlling locomotive" was invented by Arshad Ahamed S (Tiruvannamalai, India), Karthik Palanisamy (Thanjavur, India) and Kapil Jagdish Gadgil (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a locomotive includes a display device and a controller. The display device is configured to receive a braking information to halt the locomotive from a back-office and display a notification regarding the braking information. The controller is configured to receive the braking information from the back-office to halt the loc...