US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Sept. 23 for "Drone based automated yard check" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,980, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Drone based automated yard check" was invented by Nicholas Dryer (North Barrington, Ill.), Zachery Bettis (Fort Worth, Texas), Bryan Gabric (Weatherford, Texas), Michael I. Ibanez (McAllen, Texas) and Yasha Hajizeinalibiouki (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing mechanisms for automated inventory control are provided. In embodiments, an operational workflow for providing automated inventory control includes automated data collection and automated image data analysis. The automated data collection includes capturin...