ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,523, issued on April 7, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Refining process control device and refining process control method" was invented by Hiroto Kase (Tokyo), Shota Amano (Tokyo), Yukio Takahashi (Tokyo) and Shinji Tomiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refining process control device includes: a past similar performance extraction unit configured to extract, from the refining performance database, a performance value of a past refining process in which a refining condition being a refining process condition acquired before the start of the refining process and including a result of an immediately preceding ref...