ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,707, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Transfer device and transfer method for data transfer compatible with a plurality of protocols" was invented by Shugo Mikami (Tokyo), Kazuma Koshide (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Imai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer device receives data from a transmission source device, and stores the program group and initial setting information, the transfer device includes: wherein each program in the program group matches a reception protocol pertaining to reception of data from the transmission source device, a processing protocol pertaini...