ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,390, issued on June 2, was assigned to Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Steam-turbine damage-evaluation apparatus, steam-turbine damage-evaluation method, and steam-turbine damage-evaluation program" was invented by Yusuke Suzuki (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Kase (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuteru Kawai (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damage evaluation apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of detection data from a plurality of sensors installed in a steam turbine, a calculation unit configured to calculate the operating state quantity...