US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Nov. 18 for "Traffic network and method for operating rail vehicles in a traffic network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,003, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Traffic network and method for operating rail vehicles in a traffic network" was invented by Leo Strub (Braunschweig, Germany) and Carlsson Scholl (Teltow, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating rail vehicles in an operational area of a traffic network that is shared with traffic participants other than the rail vehicles. The rail vehicles communicate with line elements arranged in the operational area. Here, the rail vehicles and the line elements use a V2X standard for communication between each other within the shared operational area. ...