ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,515, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, controller, control system, control method, and computer-readable medium having recorded thereon control program" was invented by Naohiko Iimori (Tokyo), Go Takami (Tokyo), Shuhei Ishino (Tokyo) and Go Misawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control system comprising a control apparatus including a learning processing unit for generating a control model by learning, the control model being for calculating control data for controlling a facility according to state data detected by at least one sensor for measuring a state of t...