ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,669, issued on April 8, was assigned to FREIGHTLUCID LLC (Dallas).

"Railcar sensor communication system" was invented by Bharanikumar Ramasundaram (Flower Mound, Texas), James W. Talley Jr. (Frisco, Texas), Michael D. Rainone (Palestine, Texas), Samuel A. Sackett (Frankston, Texas), Taylor Z. Ramirez (Tyler, Texas), Calvin Schlau (Winona, Texas), Caleb N. Nehls (Tyler, Texas) and Miles H. Scott (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a railcar monitoring system for monitoring one or more conditions associated with a railcar comprises a railcar controller and one or more sensors disposed througho...