ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,252, issued on July 22, was assigned to STADLER RAIL AG (Bussnang, Switzerland).

"Method for optimizing the driving strategy of a rail vehicle, data processing apparatus, computer program product, computer-readable medium, and a rail vehicle having an energy-storage device, energy-generating device, and data processing apparatus" was invented by Andreas Buchner (Constance, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method, in particular a computer-implemented method, for optimizing the driving strategy of a rail vehicle having an energy-generating device and an energy-storage device. The method comprises the step...