ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,031, issued on May 12, was assigned to JGC Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Clustering method" was invented by Yoshinori Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kaoru Sawayanagi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clustering method includes the steps of: creating a plant model in which connection relationships between a plurality of devices (31) forming a processing plant (1) and pipes (4) are represented by a graph showing a linking relationship between a node (51) and an edge (52); setting, regarding the plant model, a cluster division condition; and performing, by a computer, the cluster division of the plant model by searching for an ...