ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,516, issued on July 14, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Sensor system and method" was invented by Chenaniah Langness (Erie, Pa.) and Matthew Heid (Erie, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include virtual sensors representative of operation of different portions of a tangible system. The virtual sensors may receive measured characteristics of the tangible system and may separately output values representative of operation of a common component of the tangible system based on the one or more measured characteristics input into each virtual sensor. A controller may receive the output values...