ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,691, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Control assistance device and control assistance method" was invented by Koki Yoshihara (Kyoto, Japan) and Takaaki Seiwa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control assistance device includes a correspondence relationship acquirer that acquires a correspondence relationship between a plurality of model identification information pieces for identification of a plurality of respective determination models that respectively determine normality degrees of operations of the constituent element based on processing information pieces representing operations ...