Patents by Inventor Bruce RUTHENBERG

Bruce RUTHENBERG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Location and/or direction of travel detection system and method
    Patent number: 9663128
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: John Johnson, Michael Scott Mitchell, Aadeesh Shivkant Bhagwatkar, Bruce Ruthenberg, Sunetha Ghanta
  • LOCATION AND/OR DIRECTION OF TRAVEL DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20160318531
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: John JOHNSON, Michael Scott MITCHELL, Aadeesh Shivkant BHAGWATKAR, Bruce RUTHENBERG, Sunetha GHANTA