US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Nov. 25 for "Methods and systems for determining hybrid train configurations" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,483, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for determining hybrid train configurations" was invented by Keith Wait (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one instance, disclosed herein is a system for configuring a train having at least one hybrid locomotive, the system comprising at least one processor operative to: receive an anticipated train route; receive a provisional train configuration, the provisional train configuration including the at least one hybrid locomotive, wherein the at least one hybrid locomotive includes at least one internal combu...