US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on June 17 for "Production facilities monitoring method, production facilities monitoring device, and operation method for production facilities" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,636, issued on June 17, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Production facilities monitoring method, production facilities monitoring device, and operation method for production facilities" was invented by Tomohiko Ito (Tokyo), Kazuhira Ichikawa (Tokyo), Tetsuya Yamamoto (Tokyo), Shingo Sugioka (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Shimamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production facilities monitoring method monitors an operation status of a plurality of production facilities of a same kind located at a plurality of production sites and includes: a data information preparation step of aggregating operational data of each of the prod...