US Patent Issued to AMSTED RAIL on July 29 for "Sensing method, system and assembly for railway assets" (Pennsylvania, Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,077, issued on July 29, was assigned to AMSTED RAIL COMPANY INC. (Chicago).

"Sensing method, system and assembly for railway assets" was invented by Justin M. Lidgett (Forney, Texas), Andrew H. Martin (West Chester, Pa.), Armand P. Taillon (Barrington, Ill.) and Evan Weiner (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for detecting an operational status of a valve or passageway on a railway asset. The methods may comprise: resiliently biasing a magnet in a direction away from a wireless sensor node coupled to the passageway; determining that the passageway is in an open position when the wireless sensor node is neutrall...