ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,301, issued on June 10, was assigned to Yukiko Watanabe (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Electronic apparatus and network of electronic apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closed physical network can be realized by putting physical addresses of electronic apparatuses under the central management in the chip level. Simultaneously, the decentralized management can be realized logically by converting the dictionary recording identifications of chips on the closed physical network (inside the physical firewall) to a blockchain. By this way, the present invention is characterized by making th...