ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,472, issued on July 8, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Monitoring system" was invented by Michael Kirchner (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Larry Chalmers (Jacksonville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system and method may receive detection times at which passage of one or more vehicle systems by a detection device disposed along a route is detected. Locations of the one or more vehicle systems at different times may be received from one or more location sensors disposed onboard the one or more vehicle systems. The locations of the one or more vehicle systems when the one or more vehicle sys...