US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Pantograph-based vehicle guidance system and method" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,449, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Pantograph-based vehicle guidance system and method" was invented by Jeffrey John Wolff (Erie, Pa.), James Ghofulpo (Erie, Pa.), Rekha Doddarangaiah Prasad (Warrendale, Pa.), Henry Todd Young (Erie, Pa.), Timothy Brown (Erie, Pa.) and Jennifer Sobierajski (Erie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle guidance system and method includes at least one guidance sensor configured to mount on or adjacent to a pantograph along a lateral width of the pantograph. The pantograph installs on a vehicle and conducts electrical energy from a conductive ...