US Patent Issued to Fujikin on Dec. 30 for "Valve control apparatus, valve control system, valve control method, and valve control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,179, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Fujikin Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Valve control apparatus, valve control system, valve control method, and valve control program" was invented by Ryutaro Tanno (Osaka, Japan), Yuya Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Tomoki Nakada (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshino Fujii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve control apparatus including: an operating time measurement unit that measures an operating time of a valve based on an operation pressure of the valve and whether the valve is open or closed; and a command control unit that receives an opening command directed to the valve and transmitted from a cont...