ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,673, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Computer system and management method for computer system" was invented by Makio Mizuno (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo), Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo), Norio Shimozono (Tokyo) and Takeru Chiba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer system including a plurality of storage nodes and a control node, in a case where a storage system is deployed to a new storage node, the control node templates configuration information of an existing storage node by using a template deployment service, the control node sets a plurality of initial setting nodes, and c...