US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Feb. 4 for "System and method for intermodal dual-stream-based resource optimization" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,199, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"System and method for intermodal dual-stream-based resource optimization" was invented by Dasaradh R. Mallampati (Trophy Club, Texas), Vishal Badyal (Fort Worth, Texas), Paul Kuhn (Fort Worth, Texas) and April Y. Kuo (Colleyville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for optimizing hub resources and maximizing hub throughput based on dual-stream resource optimization (DSRO). In embodiments, a first flow of units arriving to the hub from customers to be loaded into departing trains is represented as a consolidation stream, and a second ...