ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,328, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ground control device, radio communication apparatus, radio train control system, and train control method" was invented by Katsunori Tsuchida (Tokyo), Atsushi Takami (Tokyo) and Shuichi Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground control device includes a control unit that determines a control mode of operation control on a train in a communication area of a radio communication apparatus, based on information on a communication level indicating a communication state between the train and the radio communication apparatus determined in a predetermined...