US Patent Issued to PROGRESS RAIL LOCOMOTIVE on Feb. 17 for "Modeling train movement dynamics for train control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,426, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PROGRESS RAIL LOCOMOTIVE INC (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Modeling train movement dynamics for train control" was invented by Sammy Akif (Northlake, Texas), Marcos Blanco Fernandes (Trophy Club, Texas) and Evan Whinery (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a train using a train model are described herein. A The train model is a concatenated version of an empirical model. The empirical model is corrected and optimized using data generated by an empirical physics engine. The optimization of the empirical model reduces the number of inputs into the model, allo...