ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,983, issued on July 21, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Data processing method and data processing program" was invented by Masahide Noda (Kawasaki, Japan) and Koichi Yokota (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer of a data processing device comprising: a common digital twin in which first processed data obtained by processing received source data is stored; a specific digital twin in which second processed data obtained by processing the source data is stored; and a service processor for each of a plurality of services that requests access to the common digital twin or the specific digital twin to...