US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus with an axle counter for operating a railroad crossing, computer program product and delivery apparatus for the computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,296, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Method and apparatus with an axle counter for operating a railroad crossing, computer program product and delivery apparatus for the computer program product" was invented by Stephan Griebel (Wolfenbuttel, Germany) and Jens Braband (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a railroad crossing includes using an axle counter to capture measurement data for rail vehicles approaching the railroad crossing during passage of the rail vehicle. The velocity and the acceleration of the rail vehicle are calculated from the measurement da...