US Patent Issued to Hitachi on March 18 for "Timetable creation apparatus, timetable creation method, and automatic vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,428, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Timetable creation apparatus, timetable creation method, and automatic vehicle control system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Minakawa (Tokyo), Keiji Kimura (Tokyo), Michi Kariatsumari (Tokyo), Masahito Kokubo (Tokyo) and Megumi Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timetable creation apparatus 100 for correcting a target timetable being a train timetable to be used to control a group of trains by using a predicted passenger demand to thereby create a new target timetable, includes: an objective function generation unit 115 that generates an objective function for...