Railway inspection system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9981671
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13409487

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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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  • NORDCO INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fraser, Randy Scott Yorktown Heights, US 1 35
Graham, Patrick Michael Watertown, US 2 86
Underwood, Paul Sanders Bridgewater, US 2 45

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