ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,463, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Cause specifying system and cause specifying method" was invented by Shinya Kita (Tokyo), Jithin Chathankandath (Tokyo), Mohit Luthra (Singapore) and Bharath Rathinam (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory database and an active inventory each store inventory data indicating a current status of an influence relationship between elements included in the communication system. An E2EO module detects occurrence of an event in a specific element included in the communication system. The E2EO module identifies at least one other element having an influence re...