ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,184, issued on April 8, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems, methods, and devices for asset monitoring" was invented by Jati Santoso (Bedok, Singapore), Thanh Trung Bui (Bedok, Singapore) and Thanh Ngo Hoang Tran (Bedok, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset monitoring system receives a first multi-dimensional representation of an asset associated with an industrial process. The asset monitoring system generates a second multi-dimensional representation of the asset from the first multi-dimensional representation. The second multi-dimensional representation may be a two-dimensional vector graphic rep...