US Patent Issued to Cavnue Technology on Sept. 30 for "Intelligent railroad at-grade crossings" (Illinois, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,044, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cavnue Technology LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Intelligent railroad at-grade crossings" was invented by Mathew O'Sullivan (Evanston, Ill.) and David Kiley (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring vehicles traversing a dedicated roadway that includes an at-grade crossing. In some implementations, a system includes a central server, a gate system, and sensors. The gate system provides access to an at-grade crossing for vehicles. The sensors are positioned in a fixed location relative to a ...