ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,818, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Distributed system and data transfer method" was invented by Yutaka Uematsu (Tokyo), Tadanobu Toba (Tokyo), Kenichi Shimbo (Tokyo) and Takumi Uezono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is possible to reduce the amount of data transmitted from the edge system to the outside while securing the amount of information necessary for purposes such as factor analysis and diagnosis and the cycle of information acquisition. A distributed system includes: an edge device that is a moving body or equipment capable of automatic operation; and a diagnostic data computer. The edge d...