US Patent Issued to Traffic Control Technology on May 20 for "Automatic driving methods, vehicle on-board controllers, traffic control integrated automation systems, and zone controllers" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,539, issued on May 20, was assigned to Traffic Control Technology Co. Ltd (Beijing).

"Automatic driving methods, vehicle on-board controllers, traffic control integrated automation systems, and zone controllers" was invented by Chao Liu (Beijing) and Qiang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an automatic driving method, a VOBC, a TIAS, and a ZC. The method includes: sending, when a position of a target train is lost in a FAM mode and the target train is in an emergency-brake-stop state, a train message to a TIAS and fault information indicating loss of train position to a ZC, the train messag...