Digital Twin Model Ledger With Tokenized Multi-Organization Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional techniques face challenges in efficiently utilizing digital twin models while ensuring credit enhancement, authenticity, integrity, reliability, confidentiality, and availability in infrastructure systems involving multiple organizations.

Innovation Solution

A model utilization system utilizing a distributed ledger (blockchain) to store scenarios, digital twin models, and data, calculate tokens for incentives, and retrieve candidates that satisfy user requests, ensuring credit enhancement through mechanisms for consensus building, token distribution, and compatibility among organizations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If digital twin models are utilized in infrastructure systems involving multiple organizations, then productivity and efficiency are improved, but reliability and credit enhancement cannot be guaranteed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveefficiency of digital twin model utilizationVSAvoidcredit enhancement guarantee
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

A blockchain-based intermediary platform is introduced to mediate between multiple organizations utilizing digital twin models. The blockchain ledger records and verifies model usage, data access, and incentive distributions transparently, establishing trust among organizations without requiring centralized control. This intermediary mechanism enables efficient multi-organizational collaboration while guaranteeing reliability through cryptographic verification and consensus protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of manufacture

If conventional techniques are used for digital twin model utilization, then implementation is simple, but efficiency and credit enhancement cannot be improved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimplementation simplicityVSAvoidmodel utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates digital copies (tokens) of physical infrastructure assets and their associated data on the blockchain. These digital twins are represented as tokenized assets that can be replicated, transferred, and utilized across multiple organizations. The copying mechanism enables efficient sharing and collaboration on digital twin models without requiring complex physical asset management, thereby improving productivity while maintaining implementation feasibility through established blockchain technologies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Adaptability or versatility

If digital twin models are shared among multiple organizations, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but confidentiality and data security deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel sharing capabilityVSAvoidconfidentiality risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The blockchain system implements local quality control through permissioned access mechanisms and role-based authorization. Different organizations receive different levels of access rights to digital twin models and data based on their specific needs and trust levels. Sensitive data can be encrypted and accessed only by authorized parties with appropriate permissions, while still allowing broad collaboration on less sensitive aspects. This enables versatile model sharing while maintaining confidentiality through granular, location-specific access control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12586074B2Model utilization system, model utilization method, and computer program product
Publication Date: 2026.03.24 KK TOSHIBA
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AI summary

According to one embodiment, a model utilization system includes a memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: perform processing of a distributed ledger configured to store a scenario to be used for analysis of a target system, a digital twin model to be used for the analysis, and data to be input to the digital twin model; calculate a token for an organization that provides the digital twin model to be utilized and an organization that provides the data to be utilized; retrieve, from the distributed ledger, a candidate of the scenario satisfying a user request, a candidate of the digital twin model satisfying the user request, and a candidate of the data satisfying the user request, present the retrieved candidates, and present a token required to use a combination of the retrieved candidates of the digital twin model and the data.