ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,378, issued on April 1, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Industrial internet of things with independent management platform and control methods thereof" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Bin Liu (Chengdu, China), Haitang Xiang (Chengdu, China), Xiaojun Wei (Chengdu, China) and Yong Li (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial internet of things with independent management platform and control methods thereof are provided. The service platform and sensor network platform use a centralized arrangement, and the management platform uses an independent arrangement. W...