ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,896, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, prediction method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Ryosuke Kashiwa (Tokyo), Toshiaki Omata (Tokyo), Nobuaki Ema (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Regarding each of a plurality of operation patterns virtually generated in regard to the operation performed by a worker with respect to an actual plant, an information processing device uses plant data related to the operation of the actual plant and uses a virtual plant which follows the actual plant, and predicts the state transi...