ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,869, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus management device and software generation method" was invented by Hiroaki Sakaguchi (Tokyo) and Tetsushi Masuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus base model is a model for defining apparatuses in an air conditioner management system from apparatus data that includes information regarding each item managed for the apparatuses. An SW generation unit is configured so as to associate the apparatus data with the apparatus base model on the basis of the apparatus data and thereby generate apparatus control SW for managing the apparatuses i...