ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,069, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to WAYLENS INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Event detection by combining two or more data sources on a vehicle" was invented by Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz (Wayland, Mass.), Haowei Zhang (Weston, Mass.), Jon Verhaeghe (San Valley, Idaho), Christopher John Eller (Johns Island, S.C.) and Gang Ding (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive a first event from a first source and a second event from a second source. The processor may be configured to request the second event in response to the first event and run a train...