ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,221, issued on July 8, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Germany).

"Method for identification of car order on a train and control device for a railcar" was invented by Imre Busznyak (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and equipment for determining a sequence of railcars connected to a locomotive on a train, wherein a control device of the locomotive is connected to railcars including a control device via a brake pipe, wherein the control device of the locomotive and the control devices of the railcars may exchange messages via a fast wireless network, wherein the method and equipme...