ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,035, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Train control system" was invented by Daisuke Koshino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A train control system includes a ground control device installed on a first route; a wireless base station connected to the ground control device; a ground control device installed on a second route that is adjacent to the first route; and a wireless base station connected to the ground control device. The ground control device performs handover reservation between with all the wireless base stations installed between a first station installed on the first route and a...