ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,723, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Management device" was invented by Tatsuya Okabe (Kariya-city, Japan), Koichi Nagata (Kariya-city, Japan), Isao Tabushi (Tokyo) and Dan Tachibana (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device includes: a blockchain that is configured to record transaction data of material of a product; a variation range registrar that is configured to register data on a variation range of a weight of material allowed in a transaction process to the blockchain; and a transaction data registrar that is configured to receive input of data regarding a transaction...