US Patent Issued on Sept. 2 for "System and method for controlling a train travelling along a railway line" (Florida, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,943, issued on Sept. 2.

"System and method for controlling a train travelling along a railway line" was invented by John Ross (Melbourne, Fla.), Jeffrey Fries (Grain Valley, Mo.), Maximo Salinas (Melbourne, Fla.), Shawn Clark (Melbourne, Fla.), Jess Backes (Grain Valley, Mo.) and Michael Scott Mitchell (Grain Valley, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are for controlling a train traveling along track blocks. A first signal transmitter is installed at a first track block and transmits, using a predefined range of transmission frequencies, first signals for detecting when the train enters the first track block. A se...