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James A. Oswald — 21 Patents

WBWestinghouse Air Brake: 13 patents #22 of 284Top 8%
THTransportation Ip Holdings: 4 patents #111 of 657Top 20%
WHWabtec Holding: 3 patents #32 of 164Top 20%
Coggon, IA: #1 of 6 inventorsTop 20%
Iowa: #562 of 15,303 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
James A. Oswald has been granted 21 US patents. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in November 2025. James A. Oswald ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list James A. Oswald in Coggon, IA, US.

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Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12473000 Vehicle control systems and methods Jeffrey H. Chapman, Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Jared Little, Vinaykanth V. Mudiam 2025-11-18
12325456 Systems and methods for detecting brake system anomalies Ann K. Grimm, Kevin Angel, James E. Trainor, Phillip A. Burgart, Kendrick W. Gawne 2025-06-10
12275327 Vehicle control system and method Andrew Ryan Staats, Karen A. Shaw, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Glenn Robert Shaffer 2025-04-15
11958512 Monitoring and communication device of a vehicle Carl L. Haas, Padam Dhoj Swar, Danial Rice, Christopher Claussen, Joseph Gorman +8 more 2024-04-16 $99,336,000
11890965 Vehicle control system and method James E. Trainor, Jeffrey John Wolff, Timothy W. Brown, Henry Todd Young, Lindsay Short +9 more 2024-02-06 $32,809,000
11871234 Secure vehicle to vehicle PTC communication Rebecca W. Dreasher, Adam Hausmann, Matthew Vrba, Edward J. Kuchar, James G. Lucas +18 more 2024-01-09
11820343 System and method for detection of multi-vehicle system separation 2023-11-21 $85,554,000
11605248 Systems and methods for communicating vehicular event alerts 2023-03-14 $63,315,000
11447034 Vehicle control system and method Andrew Ryan Staats, Karen A. Shaw, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Glenn Robert Shaffer 2022-09-20
11385066 Vehicle navigation and control system and method Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Michael Bratcher 2022-07-12 $38,835,000
11332172 Method of wheel calibration 2022-05-17 $29,766,000
11267496 Vehicle system Edward J. Kuchar, Andrew Ryan Staats, Shannon K. Struttmann 2022-03-08
11014588 Computing train route for PTC onboard system to navigate over a loop track Amit Saxena 2021-05-25 $61,050,000
11004228 Image based train length determination Benjamin Henniges 2021-05-11 $60,429,000
10994651 Method and system for notifying an operator Igor Abrosimov, Brian Kurz 2021-05-04 $31,844,000
10889276 Method and apparatus for learning and validating brake deceleration rates Andrew Ryan Staats, Keith E. Smith, Brian James Langstraat, Stuart J. Barr, Jeffrey D. Kernwein 2021-01-12 $149,608,000
10392040 Systems and methods for determining track location and/or direction of travel Jeffrey D. Kernwein 2019-08-27 $104,426,000
10077033 Braking systems and methods for determining dynamic braking data for a braking model for a train Dennis W. Sutherland 2018-09-18 $29,729,000
9714041 Train control system and method 2017-07-25 $28,882,000
9296379 Braking systems and methods for determining dynamic braking data for a braking model for a train Dennis W. Sutherland 2016-03-29 $37,771,000
9283945 Braking systems and methods of determining a safety factor for a braking model for a train Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Dennis W. Sutherland, Kristofer M. Ruhland 2016-03-15 $37,453,000