ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,722, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZHUZHOU CRRC TIMES ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Hunan, China).

"Main circuit of traction system and control method therefor and rail vehicle" was invented by Long Wang (Hunan, China), Xinjian Chen (Hunan, China), Bin Zhang (Hunan, China), Wenguang Chen (Hunan, China), Chaolu Chen (Hunan, China), Rong Mou (Hunan, China), Anhui Ji (Hunan, China), Xiong Liu (Hunan, China), Nannan Xu (Hunan, China), Jun Yang (Hunan, China), Zhengliang Gao (Hunan, China), Haobin Xiong (Hunan, China), Mingliang Zeng (Hunan, China) and Dongpo Zhu (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a main circui...