ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,551, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Data aggregation device" was invented by Kasumi Onoda (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Masayuki Terada (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Hiroshi Aono (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Tomohiro Nakagawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Keita Hasegawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Kazuma Nozawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective is to collate data for each group. A data aggregation device 1 that collates and aggregates data which is possessed by each of two or more organizations and which is correlated with individuals and groups includes an aggregation unit 12 configured to collate and aggregate...