US Patent Issued to JGC on June 3 for "Plant construction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,145, issued on June 3, was assigned to JGC Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Plant construction method" was invented by Noriaki Terakubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroteru Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsuo Honiden (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant construction method is provided and includes: installing a group of devices (2) for processing fluid; and forming, by a 3D printer (1), a framework structure (3) configured to support a piping (5), which allows the fluid to be transferred among devices (2) included in the group of devices (2), in a region different from an installation region for the group of devices (2). When the ...