ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,334, issued on June 23, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"Construction method, collision simulation method, and system for simplified rail vehicle models" was invented by Yong Peng (Changsha, China), Gongxun Deng (Changsha, China), Guangjun Gao (Changsha, China), Song Yao (Changsha, China), Suchao Xie (Changsha, China), Ping Xu (Changsha, China) and Shuguang Yao (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a construction method including steps of: constructing a detailed model and a simplified model of the rail vehicle using finite element method based on the three-dimensional str...