ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,431, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bombardier Transportation GmbH (Berlin).

"Method for managing power consumption of a railway vehicle, and railway vehicle with improved power consumption management" was invented by Domenico Palmisano (Marcq en Baroeul, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing power consumption of a railway vehicle is provided. The power consumption of the railway vehicle is managed by a central control unit that receives information representing an amount of electrical traction power required for traction or generated by electrodynamic braking based on a traction demand set by the driver o...