ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,912, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for selecting equipment for use in a plant" was invented by Takaaki Matsuda (Tokyo), Shin Okuyama (Tokyo), Hiroaki Nakajima (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Zushi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device keeps a plurality of sets of designing information each on a combination of a plurality of plant devices that execute an operation a plant and at least one control device that executes control on each of the plant devices, keeps o...