US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Feb. 10 for "Distributed consensus method, distributed system and distributed consensus program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,508, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Distributed consensus method, distributed system and distributed consensus program" was invented by Yuta Taguchi (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed consensus method for performing data consensus processing in a distributed system that couples one or more client apparatuses and a plurality of server apparatuses via a network, the method including a step in which each server apparatus performs data operation according to a predetermined distributed consensus algorithm, a step in which an auxiliary consensus device, which is an ...