ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,700, issued on May 12, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Braking system and method" was invented by Carl L. Haas (Walkersville, Md.) and Charles L. Wolf (Olney, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method includes one or more processors to control operation of an air brake system having plural braking devices each disposed on a different vehicle of a vehicle system and configured to control braking efforts in the air brake system via the braking device disposed onboard the corresponding vehicle. The one or more processors may communicate one or more command messages to the braking devices t...