US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on July 15 for "Systems and methods for auditing assets" (Texas, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,541, issued on July 15, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Systems and methods for auditing assets" was invented by Philip Gerald Davis (Fort Worth, Texas), Ross Aaron Springer (Fort Worth, Texas), Devin Scott Wagner (Haltom City, Texas) and Jacob Scott Ford (Billings, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data associated with a railroad environment, extracting an asset from the first LiDAR data associated with the railroad environment, and superimposing the asset into a spatial model. The method also includes receiving a field...