US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Oct. 14 for "Information management system, information management method, and information sharing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,480, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information management system, information management method, and information sharing system" was invented by Katsuya Nishijima (Tokyo), Tomohiro Shigemoto (Tokyo), Nobutaka Kawaguchi (Tokyo) and Yuki Ueki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information management system is provided with a data processing unit that receives, from an information processing apparatus corresponding to a different party, information managed by the different party, calculates a reliability level with respect to the different party, and calculates a confidence level with respect to the inf...