ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,987, issued on May 27, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).
"System and method for railroad snapshot and playback" was invented by John Valentino (Hurst, Texas) and Len Gagne (Haslet, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Railroad Snapshot and Playback System and Method is disclosed that can provide a messaging/communication infrastructure configured to generate and route current train related messages for multi-region train routing plans. The types of railroad data being tracked can be organized into one or more domains. A method for railroad snapshot playback can include receiving a plurality of events related to ...