ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,584, issued on July 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Positioning configuration design device, positioning configuration design method, and program" was invented by Hirotaka Okazaki (Tokyo) and Kyotaro Onishi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This positioning configuration design device includes a positioning configuration setting unit that excludes facilities which are likely to be able to be excluded from facilities respectively positioned at a plurality of locations and sets a positioning configuration of the facilities; a feasibility confirmation unit that judges whether predetermined cond...