US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on March 4 for "Operation method and operation system for operating production facilities of a same kind" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,249, issued on March 4, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Operation method and operation system for operating production facilities of a same kind" was invented by Tomohiko Ito (Tokyo), Kazuhira Ichikawa (Tokyo), Shingo Sugioka (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Shimamoto (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method for production facilities operates production facilities of a same kind located at production sites, and includes: a data information preparation step of aggregating operational data of each of the production facilities for each of the production sites; a data accumulation step of accumula...