US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on May 13 for "System and method for railroad tie management" (Texas, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,870, issued on May 13, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"System and method for railroad tie management" was invented by Michael James Brick (Fort Worth, Texas), Samuel Minton (Brandon, S.D.), Christopher Neil Pickard (Argyle, Texas), Phillip Hunt (Saginaw, Texas) and Justin Lee Devine (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Railroad Tie Management System is disclosed that can provide an efficient and organized method of inspecting and auditing ties in a rail system. Tie mark files can be retrieved by a client from a server or database in operable communication with the client, and upon instantiation o...