US Patent Issued to Cattron North America on July 29 for "Vision-based systems and methods for locomotive control and/or location determination" (Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,081, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cattron North America Inc. (Warren, Ohio).

"Vision-based systems and methods for locomotive control and/or location determination" was invented by Jeremy Jovenall (Mercer, Pa.), Brian Fette (Canfield, Ohio) and Larry Foore (Bayfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of vision-based systems and methods for locomotive control and/or location determination. In exemplary embodiments, a system includes at least one camera positionable onboard a locomotive for capturing one or more images of trackside signage including location data corresponding with location(s...