General Electric Company

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

Ge Global Sourcing LLC

Global Patent Operation

Aaron Richard Mitti

Joseph Forrest Noffsinger

Jared Klineman Cooper

Nick David Nagrodsky

Aric Albert Weingartner

Richard Will Baker

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

David Michael Peltz

Jeffrey Michael Fries

Todd William Goodermuth

John William Brand

Scott Daniel Nelson

Brian Douglas Lawry

William David Shields

Martin Paget

John Charles Hounschell, Ii

Curtis Doyle Mechling

Richard Lee Lawson

Brian David Jeffrey

Display screen with shipment management graphical user interface

A monitoring method and system monitor a transmitted current that is injected into conductive components of a route traveled by vehicle systems, monitor a received current that represents a portion of the transmitted current that is conducted through the conductive components of the route, examine changes in the transmitted and/or received current over time to determine when the vehicle systems are on the route between a first location where the transmitted current is injected into the conductive components and a second location where the received current is monitored, and examine the changes in the transmitted and/or received currents. The changes are examined to identify (a) a contaminated portion of a surface on which the route is disposed, (b) a foreign object other than the vehicle systems that is contacting the route, and/or (c) a damaged or broken portion of at least one of the conductive components of the route.

Route monitoring system and method

Methods and systems are provided for processing data generated in a vehicle group. One example embodiment comprises selectively off-boarding a data set generated at a first vehicle in the vehicle group for storage purposes, the first data set off-boarded to one or more of a second vehicle in the vehicle group and a remote storage device.

Method and system for vehicle communications

Display screen with graphical user interface

Method and system for data processing in a vehicle group

Electronic device with rail yard graphical user interface

A system and method are provided that capture an image of an asset and analyze the captured image to identify an indicium on the asset. The indicium is used, after identification, to identify the asset. The system may also be configured to identify a type of asset, to track the asset, to verify a manifest for a group of assets, or to identify damage to an asset based on comparing the captured image of the asset with a previously captured image of the asset.

System and method of image analysis for automated asset identification

A method and system for determining rail defects. The method and system receive route performance measurements from a vehicle system traveling along a route and normalize the route performance measurements based on one or more characteristics of the vehicle system. The method and a system also determine a defect for a segment of the route based at least in part on the normalized route performance measurements with respect to a threshold bandwidth corresponding to the segment. The method and system also examine velocity differences in a vehicle speed of a vehicle and the angular speed of the axles and/or wheels of the vehicle system traveling along a route to determine if the route is damaged and/or to identify the location of the potentially damaged section of the route. The differences may represent wheel creeps of the vehicle system.

System and method for identifying damaged sections of a route

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Aaron Richard Mitti