ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,262, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Meteorcomm LLC (Renton, Wash.).
"Systems for communications between head of-train and end-of-train" was invented by Wipawee Siriwongpairat (Renton, Wash.) and Thanongsak Himsoon (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for selecting from among multiple available path for transporting messages between a train application in a head-of-train area (HOT) and a train application in an end-of-train area (EOT), the multiple paths including at least one direct path and, optionally, one or more indirect paths, each path including at least one wireless segment. A communications ...