US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Feb. 17 for "Railway system planning with disturbance propagation" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,430, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Railway system planning with disturbance propagation" was invented by Alexandre Tazoniero (Curitiba, Brazil), Marcos Blanco Fernandes (Trophy Club, Texas), Fernando Antonio Campos Gomide (Campinas, Brazil), Rodrigo Almeida Goncalves (Campinas, Brazil) and Thiago Cantos Lopes (Curitiba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for determining a propagation of delays. In some embodiments, a computer system includes: a processor; a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that when executed by the processor ca...