Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

General Electric Company

Daniel Joseph Rush

Mark Bradshaw Kraeling

Derek Kevin Woo

Jared Klineman Cooper

Eugene Andrew Smith

Steven Andrew Kellner

Brian Joseph McManus

Robert C Palanti

Brian William Schroeck

Peter Henry Tu

James D Brooks

David Michael Peltz

Todd William Goodermuth

Jeffrey Donald Kernwein

Robert James Foy

David Allen Eldredge

James Glen Corry

Frank Richard Wawrzyniak

Joseph Mario Nazareth

Adam Franco

Guangliang Zhao

Weina Ge

Maria Testa

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Wolfgang Daum

Joseph Forrest Noffsinger

Sethu K Madhavan

Glenn Robert Shaffer

John William Brand

Paul Kenneth Houpt

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao

Nidhi Naithani

Wing Yeung Chung

Jeffrey James Kisak

Scott Daniel Nelson

Anju Bind

Sreyashi Dey Chaki

Glen Paul Peltonen

Gary William Mason

David Lowell McKay

Mark Wayne Wheeler

Maurice Stanley Hutchins

Michael Scott Miner

Ralph Caswell Haddock, Iii

Shannon Joseph Clouse

Nikhil Uday Naphade

Matthew Lawrence Blair

Anwarul Azam

Seneca Snyder

Dale Martin DiDomenico

Adam Charles Hausmann

Stephen Don Smith

Martin Paget

Brad Thomas Costa

Jerry Duncan

Suresh Govindappa

Manibabu Pippalla

Mark E Smith

Arunachala Karthik Sridharan

Prabhu Marimuthu

Michael Brandon Alexander

Christopher Louis Rekucki

Armin H Pfoh

Jason Rush

Ralph C Haddock

Daniel Malachi Bellesty

A system and method includes a first control system having one or more processors onboard a lead vehicle of a vehicle system that includes the lead vehicle and a remote vehicle. The second control system automatically restricts movement of the vehicle system based on a location of the vehicle system. The processors detect a signal instance of an operator actuating an input device, and communicate a vehicle information request message to the second control system. The second control system communicates a list of vehicle identifiers, that includes a vehicle identifier associated with the remote vehicle, to the processors. The processors communicate a wireless linking message, including a request to establish a communication link, to the remote vehicle based on the vehicle identifier associated with the remote vehicle.

System and method of establishing a communication link between lead and remote vehicles of a consist

A universal filtering mouthpiece for smoking devices comprising a flexible and substantially conical shaped body having a small diameter end and a large diameter end; a hollow smoke passage which runs axially through the conical shaped body from the small diameter end to the large diameter end; a filter cartridge housing centered axially at the mouthpiece end of the said flexible and substantially conical shaped body which communicates with the hollow smoke passage and capable of housing a removable filter; and a disposable, high-airflow filter cartridge consisting of a rigid cylindrical frame having rounded edges, the rigid cylindrical frame housing a smoke filter inside the inner diameter of said rigid cylindrical frame. The universal filtering mouthpiece for smoking devices is readily implementable across a wide variety of smoking devices such as, but not limited to, pipes, bongs, hookahs, water pipes, electronic cigarettes, cigarettes, and pre-roll cigarettes.

Universal filtering mouthpiece for smoking devices

An asset identification and tracking system includes one or more monitoring units configured to monitor at least one designated area. Each of the monitoring units includes an imaging device and one or more processors. The imaging device is configured to generate image data depicting one or more mobile assets that move through the at least one designated area. The one or more processors are operably coupled to the imaging device and configured to analyze the image data to detect and decipher one or more identifiers that are displayed on a particular mobile asset of the one or more mobile assets that move through the at least one designated area. The one or more processors are further configured to generate a detection message that includes the one or more identifiers for communication to an asset control system.

Asset identification and tracking system

A system includes one or more processors and a communication device onboard a first remote vehicle of a vehicle system that includes a controlling vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to establish a communication link with the controlling vehicle, and, in a first mode of operation, to automatically control movement of the designated remote vehicle responsive to movement-control messages received from the controlling vehicle over the communication link. The one or more processors are also configured, responsive to receipt of a designated suspend message from the controlling vehicle, to switch the designated remote vehicle from the first mode of operation to a second mode of operation where movement of the designated remote vehicle is controlled independently of the controlling vehicle while maintaining the communication link.

Vehicle communication and control system

Mouthpiece for smoking device

A system includes one or more processors, a communication device, and a positive train control (PTC) system. The one or more processors and communication device are onboard a lead vehicle of a vehicle system that includes the lead vehicle and a first remote vehicle. The PTC system is configured to restrict movement of the vehicle system based on a location of the vehicle system. The PTC system communicates a list of vehicle identifiers to the one or more processors. The communication device communicates a wireless linking message, which includes a vehicle identifier associated with the first remote vehicle, to the first remote vehicle. The communication device establishes a communication link between the lead vehicle and the first remote vehicle responsive to receipt of the wireless linking message at the first remote vehicle. The one or more processors remotely control movement of the first remote vehicle via the communication link.

Vehicle communication system

System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.

Vehicle control system and method

A communication system includes wired communication devices onboard vehicles of a vehicle system, wireless communication devices disposed onboard other vehicles, and a controller. The controller remotely controls movement of some vehicles via communication with the wired communication devices and establishes a wireless communication link with other vehicles. The controller remotely controls movement of the other vehicles via wireless communication responsive to these vehicles being connected to the vehicle system for temporarily assisting in vehicle system movement along one or more routes. These vehicles are configured to be disconnected from wired communication with the other vehicles subsequent to being connected to the vehicle system. The wireless communication link is in addition to any wireless communication links established in the vehicle system prior to the one or more second vehicles being connected to the vehicle system.

Communication systems

A system and method communicate a command message from a lead vehicle in a vehicle consist having remote vehicles and the lead vehicle. The command message includes a directive for controlling operations of the remote vehicles. The command message is received at the remote vehicles and reply messages are communicated in response thereto. The reply messages include statuses of the remote vehicles. Responsive to determining that the lead vehicle does not receive the reply message from one or more of the remote vehicles, the statuses of the one or more remote vehicles from which the reply messages are not received at the lead vehicle are sent and/or combined into an individual or concatenated relayed message. The individual or concatenated relayed messages are communicated to the lead vehicle such that the lead vehicle receives the statuses of the one or more remote vehicles.

System and method for communicating in a vehicle consist

A method for recording operating information of a railroad train () comprising a lead locomotive (), a remote locomotive (A), and a trailing locomotive (). The method comprises recording the operating information of at least one of the railroad train () and/or a distributed power communications system onboard the railroad train (), determining a location of the lead locomotive (), and including the location in a record of the operating information.

Method and system for using location information in conjunction with recorded operating information for a railroad train

A method for generating electricity along a roadway is provided. The method includes actuating an energy transfer assembly coupled to the roadway, wherein the energy transfer assembly is actuated by a force acting upon the roadway. The method also includes generating electricity at a generator coupled to the energy transfer assembly, the generator being driven by actuation of the energy transfer assembly.

Method and system for generating electricity

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