US Patent Issued to Traffic Control Technology on Nov. 18 for "Anti-collision method and apparatus for trains in cooperative formation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,001, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Traffic Control Technology Co. Ltd (Beijing).

"Anti-collision method and apparatus for trains in cooperative formation" was invented by Qiang Zhang (Beijing), Junguo Sun (Beijing) and Yilong Wen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present application disclose an anti-collision method and apparatus for trains in a cooperative formation. The anti-collision method includes: determining whether it is necessary to control the current train to brake; determining whether a real-time distance between the current train and a previous adjacent train in the same formation as the...