US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on July 21 for "Wayside device monitoring system and method" (Pennsylvania, Kansas, Florida, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,425, issued on July 21, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Wayside device monitoring system and method" was invented by Mike Kirchner (Wilmerding, Pa.), Brad Von Tersch (Jacksonville, Fla.), Chad Dietrich (Prescott, Wis.) and Ralph Young (Osawatomie, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wayside device monitoring system is provided that may include wayside equipment control movement of vehicle systems through a segment of a route and/or monitor operation of the vehicle systems. The wayside equipment can record data indicative of the movement that is controlled the operation that is monitored. The monito...