Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle building system and method
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Application No.: US15142485Application Date: 2016-04-29
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Publication No.: US10572850B2Publication Date: 2020-02-25
- Inventor: Christopher Donald Johnson , Srinivas Bollapragada , Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr. , Ilkin Onur Dulgeroglu , Edward McQuillan , Steven Jay Tyber
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US CT Norwalk
- Assignee: GE GLOBAL SOURCING LLC
- Current Assignee: GE GLOBAL SOURCING LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Norwalk
- Agency: The Small Patent Law Group, LLC
- Agent Christopher R. Carroll
- Main IPC: G06Q10/08
- IPC: G06Q10/08 ; B61L25/02 ; G06Q10/06 ; B61L27/00

Abstract:
A system for building a vehicle system determines cargo and vehicles to carry the cargo from a first location to a second location via one or more vehicle yards disposed between the locations. One or more characteristics of the vehicle yards are determined, as well as different builds of the vehicle system based on the cargo, the vehicle units, and the characteristics of the vehicle yards. The different builds designate different combinations of where the first cargo is carried in a vehicle system that includes the vehicle units and/or where the vehicle units are located relative to each other in the vehicle system. A build of the vehicle system is selected from among the different builds for forming the vehicle system according to the build in order to reduce the time spent handling or processing the vehicle system at another vehicle yard.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160342933A1 VEHICLE BUILDING SYSTEM AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-11-24
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