ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,292, issued on July 1, was assigned to Humatics Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Techniques and associated systems and methods for determining train motion characteristics" was invented by Joshua Senna (Brookline, Mass.), James Campbell Kinsey (Brookline, Mass.), Arihant Lunawat (Watertown, Mass.), Mike Einhorn (Madison, Ala.) and Devon Reed Clark (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for determining motion characteristics (e.g., position, velocity, acceleration, etc.) of one or more trains traveling along a train track, such that train control systems may have the information needed to safely operate the trai...