ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,443, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Method and system for data management in a means of transport" was invented by Andreas Kirsch (Hemhofen, Germany), Jurgen Lohr (Schnaittach, Germany) and Florian Ersch (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system are provided for data management in a transport device, in particular in a train. In a first comparison, a first count value stored in a first control device is compared with a count value stored in a second control device. In a second comparison, a count value selected from the first and second count values on the basis of a r...