US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC on March 24 for "Network system and configuration method of network architecture" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,031, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan) and FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Network system and configuration method of network architecture" was invented by Taiichi Otsuji (Miyagi, Japan), Katsumi Iwatsuki (Miyagi, Japan), Hirohito Yamada (Miyagi, Japan), Masafumi Yashima (Miyagi, Japan), Masakazu Matsui (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Koshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system includes a network architecture including: a network layer configured to define an entirety of an electric power network constituted from electric power grids; a local network layer configured to define a local n...