ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,798, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Communication resource optimization system leveraging production planning information" was invented by Shoji Yunoki (Santa Clara, Calif.), Daisuke Ishii (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Taisuke Ueta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing communication resource. The method may include substituting, by a processor, previous production line states associated with at least one production line to a default null state; and performing iteratively, by the processor: accessing production line information to obtain current production line state associated...