US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Jan. 13 for "System and method for fuel monitoring and spill prevention" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,513, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"System and method for fuel monitoring and spill prevention" was invented by John Edward Barnard (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, methods, and apparatus for preventing receptacle overfilling are presented. The system can include a sensor member configured to couple with a receptacle and sense a material level within the receptacle, such as via a sight glass of the receptacle. The system can include a controller in operable communication with the sensor member and configured to instantiate the shutoff of material flow from a materi...