ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,050, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC Corp. (Musashino, Japan).
"Information processing apparatus implementing a piping and instrumentation diagram, information processing method, and program" was invented by Tatenobu Seki (Musashino, Japan), Takahiro Kambe (Musashino, Japan), Yuri Kimura (Musashino, Japan) and Masato Annen (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus including a processor that receives a selection from a user of a region, in a drawing in which elements are indicated by graphics, that contains the graphics, extracts from the drawing one or more first element...