ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,755, issued on June 16, was assigned to RUMO S.A. (Curitiba, Brazil).
"System and method for wagon swing detection" was invented by Caroline Martins Masso (Curitiba, Brazil) and Marcos Luis Pedroso (Apucarana, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (1) and method for the detection of wagon swing (6) are provided. Wagon swing is detected by specific sensors (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) when a wagon (6) presents excessive swing when passing through a certain section of a railway track (2), in which such detection is made by measuring specific distances, advantageously disregarding an angle of attack of the wagon wheels (6) measured between...