US Patent Issued to Nice North America on Aug. 18 for "Systems and methods for detecting and recognizing a railcar identifier" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,785, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nice North America LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and recognizing a railcar identifier" was invented by Ilya Vladimirovich Popov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Irina Aleksandrovna Nizamova (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Krishna Khadloya (San Jose, Calif.) and Sofiya Anatolievna Klyan (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for detecting a railcar identifier are described herein. A method can include receiving railcar image information including at least an image portion that contains, or is likely to contain, a railcar identifier for a...