ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,276, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intramotev Inc. (St. Louis).
"Methods and systems for energy efficient route planning and control strategies for self-propelled railway vehicles" was invented by Samuel David King (O'Fallon, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for planning and controlling self-propelled railway vehicles along energy-efficient routes are disclosed. A computing system may receive input parameters for at least one railway vehicle that indicate a current location of the railway vehicle, a target destination, and one or more physical attributes corresponding to the railway vehicle. The system ma...