US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on March 18 for "Systems and methods for locating objects" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,648, issued on March 18, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Systems and methods for locating objects" was invented by Michael Saied Saniei (Fort Worth, Texas), Xiaoyan Si (Kirkland, Wash.) and Siva Prasad Vysyaraju (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image generated by a camera associated with a vehicle. The image includes a point of interest (POI) associated with a physical object. The method also includes determining a number of pixels from the POI of the image to an edge of the image. The edge of the image represents a location of the camera. The meth...