ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,290, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).
"Method and device for controlling a rail vehicle" was invented by Georg Lohneis (Ebensfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a rail vehicle includes recording a voice message of an user of the rail vehicle which contains a control parameter for controlling the rail vehicle. The control parameter is extracted from the recorded voice message. The extracted control parameter is displayed and the rail vehicle is controlled on the basis of the extracted control parameter only upon detection of a release command of the user that the extrac...