ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,155, issued on April 15.
"Controller for distributed devices" was invented by Yuji Ichimaru (Fukuoka, Japan), Yukio Hashiguchi (Fukuoka, Japan) and Koichi Kuwahara (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control system includes: a plurality of controllers that respectively control a plurality of devices including at least robots; and an environment manager that is communicable with the plurality of controllers. The environment manager includes an environment information storage that stores environment information, and an information update unit that updates environment information according to an operation of the plurality ...