US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Feb. 24 for "Accelerated return to steady state for continuous manufacturing processes" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,911, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Accelerated return to steady state for continuous manufacturing processes" was invented by Venkata KrishnaPrasad Reddy Vurubindi (Andhra Pradesh, India), Kumar Satyam (Bihar, India), Lokesh Dwivedi (Madhya Pradesh, India), Sanjay Venugopal (Karnataka, India) and Srinivas Ventrapragada (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain manufacturing processes, such as crude oil refining, operate continuously, wherein a facility produces one product as the feed stock for that product changes and/or the output product transitions from one product to another....