US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on July 29 for "System and method for minimizing lost motion of an axle of a vehicle and filtering erroneous electrical signals" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,932, issued on July 29, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"System and method for minimizing lost motion of an axle of a vehicle and filtering erroneous electrical signals" was invented by Darrell R. Krueger (Lecompton, Kan.) and Corey D. Wills (Berryton, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring a roadway by comparing captured images to image inconsistencies caused by lost or unnecessary motion and for minimizing lost or unnecessary motion of an axle of a vehicle and filtering erroneous pulses of an electrical signal to generate a trigger signal to capture images is presented. The syst...