ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,430, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"General control system" was invented by Tasuku Ishigooka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system comprises: moving body detecting units transmitting information about moving bodies; and a control system receives the moving body information and transmits it to a control processing unit. The control system comprises: a surplus time calculation unit that calculates a first surplus time on the basis of the response time and an estimated time required for communication control of the moving body; a processing management unit that determines an execution sequence...