ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,375, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Operation management apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Kazuya Sugimoto (Tokyo) and Masaya Itoh (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation management apparatus includes: a map converter that performs interconversion between a first individual section state corresponding to a first mobile object and a reference section state and interconversion between a second individual section state corresponding to a second mobile object and the reference section state; and a block control controller that determines the first individual section state and the se...