ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,450, issued on May 20, was assigned to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. (Pittsburgh).
"Weight profile determination system" was invented by Andrew Ryan Staats (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Stuart J. Barr (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weight profile determination system may be provided that includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor may be disposed along a route and configured to generate a plurality of force measurements of a vehicle system moving on the route relative to the sensor. The force measurements may be obtained at different times and correspond to different locations along a length of the veh...