ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,641, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Distributed system and data transmission method" was invented by Tadanobu Toba (Tokyo), Kenichi Shimbo (Tokyo), Yutaka Uematsu (Tokyo) and Takumi Uezono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject is to provide a technique of dealing with an internal state of a controller in an edge device by cooperation between an edge device and a computer such as a cloud server, and to generalize data communication for the cooperation and reduce an amount of data communication. Provided is a distributed system including an edge device and a diagnostic data computer. The edge devi...