US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on June 17 for "On-board thermal track misalignment detection system and method therefor" (Texas, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,696, issued on June 17, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"On-board thermal track misalignment detection system and method therefor" was invented by Asim Ghanchi (Southlake, Texas), Nicholas Dryer (North Barrington, Ill.), Coleman Barkley (Azle, Texas) and Michael Saied Saniei (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-board thermal track misalignment detection system method therefor is presented. The system can use on-board locomotive sensors attached to an end-of-train device to detect (on the edge), signs and symptoms of thermal misalignments of the track. Once detected an alert can be transmitted ...