ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,291, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens Mobility Inc. (NewYork, N.Y.).

"System and method for monitoring failure of trains inside tunnels" was invented by Harsh Piparsaniya (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring failure of a train within a tunnel is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by the central server, an estimated crossing time for the train to cross the tunnel and the latest location of the train from a telemetry system onboard the train. The telemetry system comprises a Head-of-Train device communicatively coupled to an End-of-Train device. The method further comprises dete...