ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,086, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Communication module, communication system, and communication method" was invented by Tomohisa Kohiyama (Tokyo), Takayoshi Fujioka (Tokyo) and Naoya Tobisawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication module includes a plurality of communication interfaces that support a plurality of different types of communication interface standards to implement a general-purpose communication module that enables data communication not depending on types of equipment. A plurality of programs to be executed in the communication module include a ...