ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,140, issued on July 8, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Energy operation support device, energy operation support method, and method for running steel works" was invented by Tomoyoshi Ogasahara (Tokyo), Masahiro Uno (Tokyo), Takayasu Aoyama (Tokyo) and Yuki Tashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy operation support device includes: an optimization calculation unit; and operation guideline transmission units. The calculation unit sets an operation condition of an energy facility as a determination variable based on information obtained from a result value/prediction value acquisition unit, unit price information...