ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,518, issued on July 15, was assigned to Shandong University (Jinan, China).

"Digital twin intelligent edge terminal and operation method therefor" was invented by Tianliang Hu (Jinan, China), Qi Meng (Jinan, China), Shuaichang Zhou (Jinan, China) and Fei Tao (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present invention provide a digital twin intelligent edge terminal and an operation method therefor pertaining to the field of digital twin terminals. The terminal comprises: a state perception module physically connected to a cloud digital twin system and single or multiple application objects and sensors via va...