ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,949, issued on April 15, was assigned to KITZ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Valve state grasping system, display device and rotary valve, valve state grasping program, recording medium, and valve state grasping method" was invented by Isao Nishizawa (Chiba, Japan) and Yuu Inoue (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve state grasping system, a display device and a rotary valve, a valve state grasping program, a recording medium, and a valve state grasping method that enable efficient valve system monitoring and accumulation of information. The system includes a valve V, a sensor unit, a server including a database, a terminal device incl...