ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,728, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Network construction support system" was invented by Kiyohito Miyazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network construction support system (100) generates one or more pieces of layout data (101) indicating a layout of construction assisting tools (140). The network construction support system calculates a countermeasure cost and an estimated risk amount, for each layout data, the countermeasure cost increasing as a number of units of construction assisting tools increases, the estimated risk amount decreasing as the number of units of construction assis...