ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,638, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Management apparatus, management method and management program" was invented by Masataka Sato (Musashino, Japan), Kazuaki Akashi (Musashino, Japan) and Shingo Horiuchi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device receives a request for generation of a first entity, and determines whether the first entity needs to consume a resource, on the basis of specification information about the first entity, the specification information being stored in advance. In a case where consumption of a resource is needed, the management device identifies a second entity ...