US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Aug. 12 for "End of train (EOT) remote track-condition monitoring" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,432, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Inc. (New York).

"End of train (EOT) remote track-condition monitoring" was invented by Mario Fernandes (Jacksonville, Fla.), Omer Metel (Anchorage, Ky.) and Gary Parkinson (Bournemouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end of train device (100) suitable of use on a railway vehicle includes an enclosure (110), one or more accelerometers (180) positioned inside the enclosure (110) and providing accelerometer data of a railway vehicle (230) when travelling on a railway track (240), and a tracking device (185) positioned inside the enclosure (110) and providing loca...