ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,307, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Xorail Inc..
"Obstruction detection system" was invented by James Lucas (Wilmerding, Pa.), Brad Von Tersch (Wilmerding, Pa.) and Mike Kirchner (Wilmerding, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting or predicting potential collisions between vehicles are provided. The systems and methods may receive sensor output indicative of a location, a heading, and/or a moving speed of a first vehicle and/or a second vehicle. The systems and methods may predict a collision between the vehicles at an intersection between routes based on the received sensor output. The systems and m...