ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,304, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER Corp. (Washington).

"Transportation operations devices and methods" was invented by Milad Hosseinipour (Hillsborough Township, N.J.), Michael Trosino (Wyndmoor, Pa.), Michael Craft (Savage, Md.), David Stolnis (Coatesville, Pa.), Emily Greve (Wilmington, Del.) and Thomas Robert Krotchko (Brookeville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Navigating a transportation network by receiving an equipment identifier, querying a section of interest database to obtain at least one section of interest associated, accessing geolocation data from one or more geolocation sensors, qu...