ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,181, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Operation management system, operation management method, and operation management program" was invented by Takashi Tameshige (Tokyo) and Jun Kitawaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes: a plurality of operation templates describing at least one procedure for managing operation of a system; a conflict determination unit that determines whether or not, upon execution of a specific procedure included in a specific operation template among the plurality of operation templates, a conflict possibly hindering execution of another procedure incl...