US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Vehicle location determining system and method" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,064, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Vehicle location determining system and method" was invented by Andrew Ryan Staats (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Joseph Gorman (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Jeffrey D. Kernwein (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Stuart J. Barr (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include one or more processors and a communication device. The one or more processors are configured to receive sensor signals output by an observer device that monitors a route area. The one or more processors analyze the sensor signals to determine a distance of a vehic...