US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Aug. 19 for "Service plan change assistance apparatus, decision model creation apparatus, decision model creation program, and train traffic management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,897, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Service plan change assistance apparatus, decision model creation apparatus, decision model creation program, and train traffic management system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Minakawa (Tokyo), Yuki Maekawa (Tokyo), Ryota Uematsu (Tokyo), Yuko Yamashita (Tokyo), Yumiko Ishido (Tokyo) and Yuichi Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a service plan change assistance apparatus (110) including: a storage apparatus (13) that stores a decision model in which a service status of each of a delayed train and a to-be-delayed train to be delayed due to the delayed ...