US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 23 for "Negotiation of information contracts between information providers and consumers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,221, issued on June 23, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Negotiation of information contracts between information providers and consumers" was invented by Somayeh Malakuti (Dossenheim, Germany), Dirk Schulz (Meckenheim, Germany), Johannes Schmitt (Ladenburg, Germany), Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany), Ralf Gitzel (Mannheim, Germany) and Prerna Juhlin (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically supplying or locating data over a communication network comprising: configuring a data source to provide source data over the communication network, the source data being identified by a...