ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,078, issued on July 29, was assigned to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. (Pittsburgh).
"Vehicle monitoring system" was invented by Kevin Angel (Marion, Iowa) and Ann Grimm (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring system and method receive a selection of at least one vehicle-of-interest onboard a vehicle system moving along one or more routes in a transportation network. The at least one vehicle-of-interest is disposed on the one or more routes in the transportation network. One or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest are monitored from onboard the vehicle system. The one or mo...