US Patent Issued to Chevron Phillips Chemical on June 30 for "Methods and systems to determine an estimated time of arrival for railcars" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,289, issued on June 30, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Methods and systems to determine an estimated time of arrival for railcars" was invented by Jacob M. Herzog (The Woodlands, Texas), Robert B. Railey (The Woodlands, Texas), Ra Inta (The Woodlands, Texas) and Julianna Alexander (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a trained machine learning (ML) model to determine an ETA of a railcar to a destination and to generate a fleet readiness alert, including: collecting railcar trip information; collecting coordinates of a rail station associated with a rail carrier; creatin...