ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,291, issued on July 21, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Railway vehicle charging control method, railway vehicle, charging station and charging system" was invented by Mingyang Guo (Shenzhen, China), Hongtao She (Shenzhen, China), Hao Lu (Shenzhen, China), Zhicheng Tan (Shenzhen, China) and Dongmao Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A railway vehicle charging control method includes the following steps: receiving vehicle information of the railway vehicle and a charging request transmitted by a signal system; establishing wireless communication connection with a vehicle control unit of the railway veh...