Yokogawa Electric Assigned Patent

Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,703,787) developed by Ng, Jason Allan Lu, Velayudhan, Bijuraj Pandiyath, and RajendranPillai Sarojini, Muralee Krishnan, Singapore, Singapore, for a “data storage management apparatus and data storage management method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage management apparatus in an industrial plant is configured to communicate with a first data storage location which is configured to be a primary data storage location. The apparatus is further configured to communicate with a storage parameter configuration database, and a storage data configuration database. The apparatus is configured to determine if a utilization parameter in the primary data storage location is the same as or greater than a utilization limit. When the utilization parameter is determined to be the same as or greater than the utilization limit, the apparatus is configured to identify from the primary data storage location stored data having a storage duration which is the same as or greater than a retrieved data retention policy. The identified stored data is deleted.“

The patent application was filed on March 25, 2014 (14/224,663).