US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on March 17 for "Inspection support method, inspection support apparatus, and inspection support program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,698, issued on March 17, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Inspection support method, inspection support apparatus, and inspection support program" was invented by Yasuhiro Okamoto (Tokyo), Hisanori Kawashima (Tokyo), Ryo Minegishi (Tokyo), Shunsuke Takamura (Tokyo) and Takashi Ohta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection support method on inspection of a gas or petroleum-related production facility, by receiving registration of producer information on a producer that owns or manages the production facility, receiving registration of production facility information on the production facility, receiving regist...