US Patent Issued to Hitachi Rail GTS Canada on Feb. 24 for "High integrity path extraction in rail using autonomy sensors" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,439, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hitachi Rail GTS Canada Inc. (Toronto).

"High integrity path extraction in rail using autonomy sensors" was invented by Jaewook Jung (Toronto), Veronica Marin (Toronto), Mohamed Helwa (Toronto), Jungwon Kang (Toronto) and David Beach (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Path extraction for a vehicle on a guideway, the vehicle having two or more sensors. Two or more sensor inputs are received from two or more sensors including at least one active 3D sensor input from at least one active 3D sensor and at least one passive 2D sensor input from at least one passive 2D sensor. At least one active...