US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Feb. 10 for "System and method for detecting and managing conductive gaps" (Virginia, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,121, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for detecting and managing conductive gaps" was invented by Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Ashburn, Va.), Jeffrey John Wolff (Erie, Pa.), Henry Todd Young (Erie, Pa.) and Haris Memic (Erie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method detect and manage conductive gaps between collector devices onboard vehicles and conductive pathways extending along routes traveled by the vehicles. The collector devices are conductively couplable to the conductive pathways. The system and method respond to a detected drop in an amount of ele...