US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for deploying locomotives within a consist" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,425, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for deploying locomotives within a consist" was invented by Keith Wesley Wait (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy-management system of a train performs real-time assessment of operating parameters of the train and characteristics of a route using machine-learning algorithms. A consist management module within the energy-management system evaluates predictions of future performance by the train when different numbers of locomotives within a consist are inactive. Calculating and comparing operating bene...