US Patent Issued to Harsco Technologies on March 31 for "Collision protection and safety system for rail vehicles" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,785, issued on March 31, was assigned to Harsco Technologies LLC (Fairmont, Minn.).

"Collision protection and safety system for rail vehicles" was invented by Shannon Bailey (Newton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a railway collision protection and safety system having a vehicle device located on rail vehicles at a work zone, a personal protection unit located with rail workers at the work zone, and a dispatcher processor at a control center. An authority limit within the work zone may be determined by the dispatcher processor, and an authority exceeded signal is sent to the rail vehicle when t...