ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,645, issued on July 28, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Operation assistance device and program for calculating constraint conditions imposed on an energy supply facility" was invented by Yuji Koguma (Tokyo) and Kenichi Hamaguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation assistance device includes a calculation unit that calculates at least one constraint condition imposed on each of a plurality of energy supply facilities in order to satisfy a predetermined constraint condition based on matters caused by an energy demand facility and/or matters caused by the energy supply facilities and an output unit that displays an o...