ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,808, issued on May 26, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Satellite platform" was invented by Junichi Higuchi (Tokyo), Hiroaki Miyoshi (Tokyo), Toshiharu Ito (Tokyo), Youichi Hidaka (Tokyo), Takahiro Koishi (Tokyo) and Takashi Oonuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first satellite includes a first host-side bridge and a first host, connected with a network via the first host-side bridge, mounted thereon. A second satellite includes a first I/O-side bridge and a first I/O device, connected with the network via the first I/O-side bridge, mounted thereon. A management device selects the first host mounted on at least one of the ...