US Patent Issued to AspenTech on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for real-time industrial process guidance" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,894, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AspenTech Corp. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Method and system for real-time industrial process guidance" was invented by Kerry Clayton Ridley (Houston), Michael R. Keenan (Houston), Qingsheng Quinn Zheng (Sugar Land, Texas), Yizhou Fang (Katy, Texas) and Samantha LaCombe (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments generate real-time industrial process guidance. One such embodiment receives, in memory of a processor, an operator question relating to a user-specified process variable of a model predictive control (MPC) controller of an industrial process. Next, a real-time simulation is performed of...