ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,523, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MOW Equipment Solutions Inc. (Linwood, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for railway equipment control" was invented by William Michael Hamilton (Linwood, Kan.), Ryan Jay Koci (Stilwell, Kan.) and Justin Wynne Tomac (Bonner Springs, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and machine-readable media to facilitate monitoring and control of a railway maintenance assembly are disclosed. A railway workhead component monitor may be adapted to be disposed at a railway maintenance assembly. The railway workhead component monitor may be configured to perform one or a combination of the following....