US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on May 13 for "Automated positive train control event data extraction and analysis engine and method therefor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,868, issued on May 13, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Automated positive train control event data extraction and analysis engine and method therefor" was invented by Scott Alan Neal Jr. (Fort Worth, Texas) and Siju Pallimolel Kuriakose (Bedford, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automating workflow and performing root cause analysis for enforcement events is presented. The system can enable accurate detection of an enforcement event and identifies the root cause of such events. The system can provide a user with an interface to monitor the enforcement event by collecting a list of da...