ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,993, issued on April 21, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Construction method of abnormality diagnosis model, abnormality diagnosis method, construction device of abnormality diagnosis model, and abnormality diagnosis device" was invented by Masafumi Matsushita (Tokyo), Takehide Hirata (Tokyo) and Akira Kumano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction method of an abnormality diagnosis model for diagnosing an abnormality of a process, the construction method includes: creating a first regression model that sets a regression coefficient regarding an explanatory variable with a small influence on a response variabl...