ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,458, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, configuration management apparatus, configuration management method, and program" was invented by Masahiro Shiraishi (Tokyo), Hiroki Nagayama (Tokyo), Tomoaki Washio (Tokyo) and Asami Miyajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system that performs communication among a plurality of nodes by a broker-less type publishing/subscribing model, the communication system including a computer including a memory and a processor configured to receive communication data among the plurality of nodes; based on the commun...