US Patent Issued to Norfolk Southern on Nov. 4 for "Machine-learning framework for detecting defects or conditions of railcar systems" (Georgia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,362, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Norfolk Southern Corp. (Atlanta).

"Machine-learning framework for detecting defects or conditions of railcar systems" was invented by Mahbod Amouie (Atlanta), Evan T. Gebhardt (Atlanta), Gongli Duan (Snellville, Ga.), Myles Grayson Akin (Marietta, Ga.), Wei Liu (Manlius, N.Y.), Tianchen Wang (Atlanta), Mayuresh Manoj Sardesai (Atlanta) and Ilya A. Lavrik (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method in which one or more processing devices perform operations may include obtaining a field image of a railcar collected from a field camera system and applying a machine-learning...