ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,032, issued on July 1, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus enabling interactions between actors of an energy-related infrastructure" was invented by Efrain Eduardo Tamayo Ruiz (London), Gabriele Meldaikyte (London) and Nao Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to, in particular, an apparatus enabling interactions between actors of energy-related infrastructure, which comprises a platform device that includes: one or more input/output units, which are configured to transmit data from the platform to actors 2 to 7 and/or to receive data from actors 2 to 7; a data gathering module and a f...