ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,212, issued on July 29, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).
"System and method for railroad smart flasher lamps" was invented by Ross Martin Sterling (Gardner, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart lamp system and method for monitoring a status of LEDs. The system can provide LED status monitoring using a logic controller communicating with at least one strip of LEDs. The system can utilize the logic controller to assign a unique identifier (ID) to the at least one strip of LEDs based on a physical position of a plurality of dual-inline package (DIP) switches incorporated within a smart lamp housing. The syste...