US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 20 for "Railway defect false alarm mitigation by multiple track configuration analysis" (Pennsylvania, New York, Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,193, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Railway defect false alarm mitigation by multiple track configuration analysis" was invented by Lawrence A. Mianzo (Pittsburgh), Mike Hoffelder (Norwich, N.Y.), Tod A. Oblak (Pittsburgh), Marc D. Miller (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Darrell D. Cantrell (Bonner Springs, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A track defect false alarm mitigation apparatus for a rail vehicle that is conveyed on a railway includes a processor onboard the rail vehicle that is constructed to perform feature detection on a track image captured from the railway to label an attribute in the tra...