ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,817, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Resource management" was invented by Koji Moriyama (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Richard Y. Asato (Torrance, Calif.), Ryosuke Shibata (Saitama, Japan), Brian Moran (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Xiaojian Yang (Anaheim, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a system for resource management may perform receiving a total resource request, a vector of two or more maximum available resources associated with two or more corresponding resource providers, and a number of resource providers and calculating an individual resource request for ...