US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Feb. 10 for "Rail yard train-switching system, control device, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,305, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rail yard train-switching system, control device, and control method" was invented by Maho Fujihara (Tokyo), Daisuke Tateishi (Tokyo), Hideo Nakata (Tokyo) and Masaaki Sugimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail yard train-switching system includes train-moving machines and a control device. The train-moving machines each draw one of railroad trains in a rail yard. The control device transmits a traction command to the train-moving machines based on an operation schedule. The train-moving machines each move, based on the traction command transmitted...