ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,508, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CHIYODA Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Assistance device, learning device, and plant operation condition setting assistance system" was invented by Kazuya Furuichi (Yokohama, Japan), Eisuke Oki (Yokohama, Japan) and Shizuka Ikawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation condition setting support device supporting setting of an operation condition of a plant includes a state value acquirer acquiring state values representing states of controlled devices during operation of the controlled devices, a predictor estimating predicted values for the respective state values at a predetermi...