Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Location and/or direction of travel detection system and method
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Application No.: US14698130Application Date: 2015-04-28
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Publication No.: US09663128B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: John Johnson , Michael Scott Mitchell , Aadeesh Shivkant Bhagwatkar , Bruce Ruthenberg , Sunetha Ghanta
- Applicant: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
- Applicant Address: FR Saint-Ouen
- Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
- Current Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Saint-Ouen
- Agency: The Small Patent Law Group LLC
- Agent Christopher R. Carroll
- Main IPC: B61L25/02
- IPC: B61L25/02 ; B61L27/00

Abstract:
A system and method for determining a direction of travel of a vehicle and/or identifying a misplaced wayside device obtain location data from wayside devices. The location data are representative of locations of the wayside devices along a route being traveled by a vehicle. The system and method also determine whether the location data in a series of the wayside devices exhibit an increase or a decrease in the location data across the wayside devices in the series and, responsive to determining whether the location data in the series of the wayside devices does exhibit the increase or the decrease in the location data, the system and method determine a direction of travel of the vehicle along the route, determine a location of the vehicle along the route, and/or identify a misplaced wayside device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160318531A1 LOCATION AND/OR DIRECTION OF TRAVEL DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-11-03
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