ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,325, issued on March 18, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Recommendation of candidate system configuration to be constructed on a cloud based on configuration request" was invented by Nobuaki Ozaki (Tokyo) and Shinichi Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To support appropriate selection of a configuration of a cloud system. A computer system includes a processor 111, a storage apparatus 112 and an input/output apparatus 141, the storage apparatus 112 stores at least configuration condition information 132 indicating evaluation values for system configurations that can be constructed on cloud, the in...