ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,604, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Communication requirement generation system and communication requirement generation method" was invented by Yoshiki Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a communication requirement generation system capable of easily generating a communication requirement. The communication requirement generation system includes a storage unit that stores definition information for calculating a logical distance between components that perform communication in a predetermined network, a determining unit that calculate, for each of a plurality of communication requi...