ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,792, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information exchange apparatus, information exchange system and information exchange method" was invented by Shinya Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information exchange apparatus disposed at a closed network side, includes: a reception part that accepts to register transmission data to a closed side shared storage, the transmission data being transmitted from the closed network to an open network; a management part that drafts a transmission plan of the transmission data registered; and a transmission part that stores the transmission data registered in an open...