ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,514, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CHUGAI RO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for simulating processing state of belt-shaped body" was invented by Yuji Kidani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the detection of a state where a belt-shaped body W is processed as conveyed through a furnace 10, a conveyance route R for conveying the belt-shaped body through the furnace is set and a processing condition for processing the belt-shaped body in the furnace as conveying the belt-shaped body along the conveyance route is set. A fluid analysis is performed on the assumption that a highly viscous fluid Wa having the same charact...