US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for disengaging locomotives from autonomous control" (Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,011, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for disengaging locomotives from autonomous control" was invented by Keith Wesley Wait (Flower Mound, Texas), Marcos Blanco Fernandes (Irving, Texas) and Francis R Wawrzyniak (Satellite Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy-management system of a train includes a consist disengagement module configured to control disengagement of a train consist from an autonomous mode to a manual mode of operation. After receiving an instruction to disengage, the system determines an engaged power of the consist in the autonomo...