Rail Vision Ltd. received notice of allowance from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) for its patent titled, system and methods for object and obstacle detection and classification in collision avoidance of railway applications, covering the company's cutting-edge, artificial intelligence (A.I.) based, technology specifically designed for railways. The new Japanese patent was allowed by the Japanese Patent Office on May 10, 2022, and covers a system for the detection and identification of objects and obstacles near, between, or on the railway. The capability of the system includes image processing that is applied to define obstacles, a living creature in the image frame and to distinguish it from the environment based on temperature differences, as well as electro-optic sensors (e.g. thermal infrared imaging sensor and visible band imaging sensor) used to survey and monitor railway scenes in real-time.