US Patent Issued to Hitachi, Kyoto University on Dec. 2 for "Consensus building support system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,520, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo) and Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"Consensus building support system" was invented by Takeshi Kato (Kyoto, Japan), Misa Miyakoshi (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Asa (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Kudo (Tokyo) and Junichi Miyakoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consensus building is supported by providing multiple values to a consensus building process with good visibility.A consensus building support system includes: a graph generation unit configured to generate a ternary graph based on options regarding ternary values; an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of individual o...