ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,750, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Faiveley Transport Italia S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Monitoring system for a plurality of homogeneous devices of at least two convoys, in particular two railway convoys" was invented by Roberto Tione (Turin, Italy) and Matteo Frea (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for at least one plurality of homogeneous devices is described, wherein a first portion of the homogeneous devices is arranged to be installed in a first convoy and a second portion of the homogeneous devices is arranged to be installed in a second convoy. A functional state of each device is represented by a...