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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2023
Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Jeffrey John Wolff, Erie, PA (US);
James Ghofulpo, Erie, PA (US);
Rekha Doddarangaiah Prasad, Warrendale, PA (US);
Henry Todd Young, Erie, PA (US);
Timothy Brown, Erie, PA (US);
Jennifer Sobierajski, Erie, PA (US);
Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A vehicle guidance system and method includes at least one guidance sensor configured to mount on or adjacent to a pantograph along a lateral width of the pantograph. The pantograph installs on a vehicle and conducts electrical energy from a conductive pathway as the vehicle travels along a route. The vehicle guidance system and method includes a controller that receives one or more sensor signals generated by the at least one guidance sensor and determines a lateral position of the conductive pathway relative to the pantograph based on the one or more sensor signals.