ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,941, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CASCO SIGNAL LTD. (Shanghai).

"Data consistency control method applied to railway signal centralized monitoring system" was invented by Xiaofeng Liu (Shanghai), Xiangbo Yang (Shanghai), Enhua Hu (Shanghai) and Pengfei Tu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data consistency control method, applied to a centralized railway signal monitoring system, includes: acquiring, by a center of the centralized railway signal monitoring system, all data in a local and target time intervals; encoding, by the center, all the acquired data according to a type of the data to generate a first data consistenc...