US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for providing autonomous train driving strategy" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,410, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for providing autonomous train driving strategy" was invented by Marcos Blanco Fernandes (Trophy Club, Texas), Sammy Akif (Northlake, Texas), Robert T. Wright (Carrollton, Texas), Evan Whinery (Flower Mound, Texas) and Suhani Chacha (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for operating a train are described herein. The train may include a plurality of nodes configured to detect a plurality of train variables and a train controller. The train controller including a memory storing computer-executable ins...