ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,806, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Code generation system and code generation method" was invented by Tomohisa Kohiyama (Tokyo), Sadao Satou (Tokyo), Atsushi Sagara (Tokyo), Yoshiyasu Watanabe (Tokyo), Hideaki Yokota (Tokyo), Kazuaki Ikarashi (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kawasaki (Tokyo), Katsunori Maeda (Tokyo), Keigo Fujiwara (Tokyo) and Kazunobu Hisatsune (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes: an identification code generation unit that generates, from information of a company code including a first code that uniquely identifies a management target in...