ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,244, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method for reserving cloud-based instrument" was invented by Fang-min Chu (Shanghai) and Lei Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reserving a cloud-based instrument and adapted to a system for reserving an instrument is provided. The system includes a group of remote instruments with a plurality of remote instruments, a system for reserving an instrument, and a bastion server. The reservation information includes a plurality of reservable time periods and a plurality of reserved time periods. The method for reserving the cloud-based instru...