ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,165, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Rail Systems (Riesel, Texas).
"Railroad path optimization" was invented by John Michael Minor (Mart, Texas) and Gustavo Vargas (Reisel, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides railroad path optimization method. The method determines whether at least one switch machine from a plurality of switch machines is occupied in the at least one route and detects at least one unavailable route if the at least one switch machine is occupied. Further, the method identifies at least one desired route and at least one available route associated with an origin point and at least ...