ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,838, issued on March 4, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Server management apparatus and server management method" was invented by Yu-Chun Lin (Tokyo) and Masachika Hamabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a server management apparatus, comprising: a server information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a plurality of servers respectively, server information on a server and hardware component information on hardware components included in the server, using an identifier of a control board of the server as a key; an analysis unit configured to analyze the server information and the hardwa...