ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,294, issued on July 1, was assigned to Norfolk Southern Corporation & Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta).
"Inspection portal system and methods thereto" was invented by Mabby Nicholas Amouie (Atlanta), Evan Thomas Gebhardt (Atlanta), Colin Usher (Atlanta), Alex Samoylov (Atlanta), Howard Taylor-Bryce Darling (Atlanta), Brian Thomas Yeager (Atlanta) and Thomas Samuel Fox (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for gathering data on passing vehicles can comprise a support structure spanning across a railroad track; an overhead inspection system attached to the support structure and comprising one or more cam...