ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,174, issued on July 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and system" was invented by Toshiaki Ouchi (Tokyo), Keisuke Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Tateki Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control device comprises: an acquiring unit for acquiring, as a first inlet pressure, a pressure value of first steam on a first inlet side as seen from a first regulating valve of a first turbine that rotates using the first steam, which is supplied from the first inlet via the first regulating valve, and acquiring, as a second inlet pressure, a pressure value of second steam on a s...