ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,084, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Quota management system and quota management method" was invented by Pablo Martinez Lerin (Tokyo) and Mitsuo Hayasaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a quota request in which a tenant, one or more locations, and a capacity upper limit related to a requested quota are designated, executes conflict determination n based on quota information, and adds information related to the requested quota to the quota information when a result of the conflict determination is false. The quota information includes information representing a tenan...