US Patent Issued to METROM RAIL on Sept. 23 for "Methods and systems for achieving vital ultra-wideband (UWB) based train control" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,848, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to METROM RAIL LLC (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for achieving vital ultra-wideband (UWB) based train control" was invented by Richard Carlson (Palatine, Ill.), John Albert Plutt Jr. (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Kurt Gunther (Woodstock, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for achieving vital ultra-wideband (UWB) based train control. Train-mounted units and wayside units that incorporate at least two separate and independent radios are used to obtain independent and separate ranging measurements in trains based on communications between the train-mou...