US Patent Issued to NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE on July 1 for "Mutual alignment of rail geometry measurements" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,611, issued on July 1, was assigned to NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Mutual alignment of rail geometry measurements" was invented by Andrew Nwichi-Holdsworth (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of aligning rail parameter measurements comprises receiving measurement data indicating variations in a parameter of the rail along the length of the rail derived from measurement runs performed at different points in time, each item of measurement data comprising a value for the parameter and an estimate of the location at which the parameter was measured. A signal is formed corresponding to each measurement ru...