ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,059, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Management apparatus, management system, and management method" was invented by Nodoka Mimura (Tokyo), Masayuki Takase (Tokyo), Takeshi Shibata (Tokyo), Kunihiko Toumura (Tokyo) and Dai Akashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management apparatus specifies a first communication path requirement template corresponding to a first communication path requirement of a first application module and a second communication path requirement template corresponding to a second communication path requirement of a second application module, determines the available communication...