US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Nov. 25 for "Data processing device, data processing method, and production system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,009, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data processing device, data processing method, and production system" was invented by Kenichiro Wada (Musashino, Japan) and Takashi Sasaki (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing device includes: a collector that collects setting values in operating elements that control a production process for a product at prescribed intervals and collects brand information indicating a brand of the product; a first processor that performs a statistical process for the setting values, obtains representative values for the setting values as operatio...