ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,339, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for acquiring measurement data related to a target device that a user is looking at" was invented by Yukiyo Akisada (Tokyo) and Yasuki Sakurai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus including a storage unit configured to store, in association with each of a plurality of devices existing in a plant, a storage address of measurement data which is related; a detection unit configured to detect, among the plurality of devices, a target device that a user is looking ...