US Patent Issued to Amsted Rail on Sept. 23 for "System, method and apparatus for monitoring the health of railcar wheelsets" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,339, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amsted Rail Co. Inc. (Chicago).

"System, method and apparatus for monitoring the health of railcar wheelsets" was invented by Mohsen Samadani (King of Prussia, Pa.), David Heagerty (Glen Mills, Pa.), Francis Cooper (Downingtown, Pa.), Daniel Maraini (West Chester, Pa.) and Andrew Seidel (Camp Hill, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring the operating condition of a wheelset on a railcar comprising a sealed unit mounted on or near a wheelset of the railcar for collecting data from the wheelset and performing AI analyses on the collected data to determine the oper...