US Patent Issued to Nice North America on May 26 for "Systems and methods for detecting and recognizing a railcar identifier" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,967, issued on May 26, 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) and Krishna Khadloya (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for detecting and recognizing a railcar identifier are described herein. An image of a railcar can be captured by an image sensor and provided to processing circuitry of a controller. A bounded portion of the image corresponding to the railcar identifier can be identifi...