ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,130, issued on June 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control device that detects surging" was invented by Takaharu Hiroe (Tokyo), Minoru Matsuo (Tokyo), Tatsuo Ishiguro (Tokyo), Akihiro Nakaniwa (Tokyo) and Yasunori Tokimasa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: a variation command unit that changes a command value, which is a command value sent to a system including a compressor, affecting an operating state of the compressor; a proportional coefficient calculation unit that calculates a proportional coefficient of a variation in a parameter, which indicates a state of the com...