Geometric Process Control gets Japanese patent

Curvaceous Software has announced the grant of a patent by the Japan Patent Office for the control of multi-variables processes using a single Operating Envelope.

The patent application was first started in the UK in May 2002.

In 2005 Curvaceous Software requested an examination in Japan.

The patent is about taking action in order to get the process back into the Best Operating Zone (BOZ), also known as Operating Envelope.

The whole concept is based upon the Geometric Process Control (GPC) technology.

GPC identifies and models the Best Operating Zone of a process from existing data.

The BOZ is defined by the multi-variable operating points that in the past produced the best performance.

A multi-dimensional surface wraps around the set of points creating a multi-dimensional solid object, thus capturing, in geometry, all of the interactions between the ranges of all the variables.

By operating the process wholly within this object, best performance results of the past can be repeated.

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