ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,230, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Management device, management system, and management method for classifying an operation pattern" was invented by Tomohiro Narui (Tokyo), Shuichi Murayama (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Nagahiro (Tokyo), Fuyuki Sato (Tokyo), Toshihiro Mega (Tokyo) and Genta Yoshimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires operating history data for an equipment device in a prescribed time period; and a classification processing unit that classifies, based on the operating history data acquired by the acquisition unit, an operat...