ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,194, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MILLER FELPAX Corp. (Winona, Minn.).

"Early warning system for shove track protection" was invented by Muhammad Mohsin Naseer (Lahore, Pakistan), Mukhtiar Ahmad (Lahore, Pakistan), Haider Ali (Lahore, Pakistan), Brent Fransen (Winona, Minn.), Joseph Montgomery (Winona, Minn.), Kevin Pilger (Lewiston, Minn.), Randy Skarlupka (Winona, Minn.), Kevin Smith (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Richard Spitzer (Winona, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are disclosed to promote safe shoving movements of a train based on train position localization without human-based track operations mo...