US Patent Issued to Progress Rail Locomotive on Sept. 30 for "Methods and systems for controlling battery electric locomotives" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,867, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for controlling battery electric locomotives" was invented by Keith Wait (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling battery electric locomotives are disclosed. The method for controlling battery electric locomotives includes receiving, via one or more processors, a first set of data associated with the battery electric locomotives of a consist in a train, wherein the first set of data includes battery system data. The method includes processing, via one or more processors, the fir...