ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,177, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Facility operation system and facility operation method" was invented by Koji Amano (Tokyo), Hiroki Yamamoto (Tokyo), Kazuma Sawada (Tokyo), Kyohei Naka (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo), Yudai Zama (Tokyo) and Yusuke Imura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage apparatus stores existing data including data relating to management of an instrument and data on actual records of the instrument, information on path structure of the existing data, mission information relating to a task in the facility operation, and information on the path structure of the mission infor...