US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Dec. 30 for "Operation plan change assistance device, operation plan change assistance method, and rail traffic management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,132, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Operation plan change assistance device, operation plan change assistance method, and rail traffic management system" was invented by Yuko Yamashita (Tokyo), Yuichi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Minakawa (Tokyo), Yasuhide Mori (Tokyo), Yumiko Ishido (Tokyo), Kazumasa Tokuhashi (Tokyo), Atsushi Toyama (Tokyo) and Hirotake Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation plan change assistance system includes a determination model generation unit configured to generate an operation plan change determination model that receives information about a train operation con...