US Patent Issued to HITACHI RAIL STS on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and method for controlling a railway system" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,749, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HITACHI RAIL STS S.P.A. (Naples, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for controlling a railway system" was invented by Fabio Canigliula (Naples, Italy), Luca Flaminio (Scafati, Italy) and Fausto Del Villano (Torre Annunziata, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation system is controlled by an apparatus. The apparatus has a communicator adapted to communicate with a second apparatus. The apparatus also has a processor. When the communicator and the processor are controlling the transportation system, they are configured for transmitting to the second apparatus. A first status message define...