US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Nov. 25 for "Automated design of process automation facilities" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,798, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automated design of process automation facilities" was invented by David Emerson (Coppell, Texas), Ichiro Wake (Tokyo), Patrick Clay (Frisco, Texas), Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Calif.), Hidenori Sawahara (Spring, Texas) and Mark Hammer (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with...