ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,384, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data flow control device, data flow control method, and data flow control program" was invented by Teruaki Ishizaki (Tokyo) and Sampath Priyankara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data flow control device includes processing circuitry configured to calculate, from among data flows obtained by commonizing and integrating at least a part of a first data flow in operation in a system that processes data and an input second data flow, a third data flow in which a resource use amount when operated in the system satisfies a predetermined condition...