US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Aug. 12 for "Data transfer device, data processing device and data processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,676, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data transfer device, data processing device and data processing method" was invented by Naoki Miura (Tokyo), Takeshi Sakamoto (Tokyo), Yuki Arikawa (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Ito (Tokyo), Kenji Tanaka (Tokyo), Masaru Katayama (Tokyo) and Yuta Ukon (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transfer device transfers a received packet. If the transfer destination of the received packet is a data processing device under control, the data transfer device (confirms the state of a shared bus, and if the shared bus is usable, transfers the packet to the data pr...