ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,917, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus, plant control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Eirou Yoshimura (Tokyo), Kan-E Kuriyama (Tokyo) and Isao Hirooka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a processor that: acquires, from a device for an operation of a plant, data related to the operation of the plant; assigns attribute information indicating a state of the device to the acquired data; and operates the plant by using the data to which the attribute information is assigned."
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