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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 01, 2012
Applicants:

Randy Scott Fraser, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Patrick Michael Graham, Watertown, CT (US);

Paul Sanders Underwood, Bridgewater, CT (US);

Inventors:

Randy Scott Fraser, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Patrick Michael Graham, Watertown, CT (US);

Paul Sanders Underwood, Bridgewater, CT (US);

Assignee:

NORDCO INC., Oak Creek, WI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61K 5/00 (2006.01); B61L 23/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B61K 5/00 (2013.01); B61L 23/04 (2013.01); B61L 23/042 (2013.01); B61L 23/044 (2013.01); B61L 23/045 (2013.01); B61L 23/047 (2013.01); G01N 2291/2623 (2013.01);
Abstract

A railway inspection system for monitoring defects of a rail, including an inspection vehicle configured for traversing the rail, a sensor disposed on the vehicle configured for obtaining rail condition data, a memory disposed on the vehicle and storing previous rail condition data from a previous traversal of the rail, a display device disposed on the vehicle, a processor disposed on the vehicle and a non-transitory computer-readable medium disposed on the vehicle and containing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause performance of the following steps in real-time as the vehicle traverses the rail, namely obtaining current rail condition data from the sensor, displaying on the display device representative images of the current rail condition data, retrieving the previous rail condition data from the memory, and displaying on the display device representative images of the previous rail condition data.


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