ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,208, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Edge device and distributed system" was invented by Tadanobu Toba (Tokyo), Kenichi Shimbo (Tokyo), Yutaka Uematsu (Tokyo) and Takumi Uezono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an edge device and a distributed system capable of efficiently collecting situation data when an unexpected event occurs in an automatically operable moving body and contributing to improvement of safety. An edge device according to the invention includes: a sensor provided in an automatically operable moving body; a recognition unit configured to recognize an object based on input ...