ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,429, issued on Sept. 8, 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 that is related to the operation of the plant and to which one of pieces of attribute information indicating a state of the device has been assigned; classifies the acquired data into one of the pieces of attribute ...