ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,907, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information transmission system, information output device, and information transmission method" was invented by Michio Oikawa (Tokyo), Yoshiharu Iwata (Tokyo) and Hikari Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is possible to exchange highly confidential information between information systems of which networks are separated from each other. An information transmission system includes: an information output device that stores information to be shared, generates concealed data by compressing and concealing the information to be shared using a predeter...