ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,849, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Central South University (Hunan, China), National Railway Administration Equipment Technology Center (Beijing), Science and Technology Research Institute of Daqin Railway Co. Ltd. (Shanxi, China) and Changsha Nanrui Rail Transport Electric Equipment Co. Ltd. (Hunan, China).

"Heavy-haul train and longitudinal dynamics traction operation optimization control system and method thereof" was invented by Wei Li (Hunan, China), Songxu Wang (Beijing), Yongsheng Yu (Shanxi, China), Wenlu Zhang (Hunan, China), Jianhua Wu (Shanxi, China), Guozhong Chen (Hunan, China) and Kai Wang (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent...