ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,407, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Resource control for system logging" was invented by Tatsuya Maruyama (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations described herein, there are an apparatus, systems, and methods for identifying a state of a plurality of synchronized devices at a particular time. The method may further include allocating, based on the identified state of each of the plurality of synchronized devices, a set of time-synchronization resources for transmitting time-synchronization information from at least one device in the plurality of devices. The method may a...