ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,403, issued on May 12, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optimal calculation method of energy operating condition in iron mill, optimal calculation device of energy operating condition in iron mill, and running method of iron mill" was invented by Tomoyoshi Ogasahara (Tokyo), Masahiro Uno (Tokyo), Koji Yoshihara (Tokyo) and Kazushige Yatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimal calculation method of an energy operating condition in an iron mill includes calculating, using a total energy operation cost of the iron mill within a predetermined period of time from a current time as an evaluation function, an operation co...