US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on June 16 for "Distributed system and distributed device which constitutes distributed system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,248, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed system and distributed device which constitutes distributed system" was invented by Kazushi Yamashina (Tokyo), Tetsuji Ohsawa (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Shiga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of inferring the cause of a fault in a distributed system configured from a plurality of distributed devices. A distributed system configured from a plurality of distributed devices capable of communicating over a communication channel, wherein each of the distributed devices has: a communication port for receiving a c...