US Patent Issued to Norfolk Southern on June 30 for "Machine-learning framework for detecting defects or conditions of railcar systems" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,568, issued on June 30, was assigned to Norfolk Southern Corp. (Atlanta).

"Machine-learning framework for detecting defects or conditions of railcar systems" was invented by Anand Ramakrishnan (Goleta, Calif.), Evan Thomas Gebhardt (Atlanta), Ilya Alekseyevich Lavrik (Atlanta) and Mabby Nicholas Amouie (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting defects or conditions of railcar systems are disclosed. Raw images depicting railcars can be received and curated into one or more training datasets each comprising at least some of the raw images. One or more machine-learning algorithms can be trained with the t...