ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,743, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Data exchange and processing synchronization in distributed systems" was invented by Mehmet H. Cintuglu (Raleigh, N.C.) and Dmitry Ishchenko (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of asynchronous communication is distributed systems are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a method determining, with a plurality of agent nodes structured to communicate asynchronously in a distributed system, a first set of iterations including an iteration determined by each of the plurality of agent nodes; determining,...