ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,372, issued on July 22, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Train monitoring device, generation device, and event detection definition generation method" was invented by Taizo Kojima (Tokyo), Akira Sugimoto (Tokyo) and Eisho Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A train monitoring device includes an obtaining unit to obtain device status information, a monitoring unit including an event detection definition, and an event detection program to interpret the event detection definition and check whether an event has occurred. When the event detection program monitors the status of the device, a first program included...