ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,468, issued on July 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Data processing device and data processing method" was invented by Shunsuke Mizumi (Tokyo), Naoto Omura (Tokyo), Takeo Tokumoto (Tokyo), Ryuji Iwamoto (Tokyo) and Shoichiro Hosomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing device comprises a division unit that divides a target period into a plurality of operating periods according to an operating condition; an identification unit that identifies a standard condition for each operating period; a calculation unit that divides each operating period into a plurality of constant performance per...