ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,517, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Display device, display method and program" was invented by Tomohiro Hotta (Tokyo), Eisuke Noda (Tokyo), Mizuki Kasamatsu (Tokyo) and Kazuya Fujiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device that guides monitoring items or operations required for protection of functions important for safety when an accident occurs is provided. The display device displays states of functions important for safety in a plant after accident occurrence in order of priority of the functions, and displays a value of a monitoring parameter for determining the state...