US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Nov. 3 for "End of train device and integrated LiDAR monitoring system" (Kentucky Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,274, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Inc. (New York).

"End of train device and integrated LiDAR monitoring system" was invented by Jose Luis Tondi Resta (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end of train device (EOT) suitable of use on a railway vehicle includes a mounting unit for installation on a car of a railway vehicle, an enclosure housing a plurality of electronic components, and an illumination device configured to illuminate a section of a surrounding area of the railway vehicle, to receive reflected light and to measure time for the reflected light to return to the illumination device for moni...