ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,526, issued on Oct. 7.
"Control data extraction and evaluation of production system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu (Fukuoka, Japan), Tomoyuki Nakamura (Fukuoka, Japan) and Mitsuaki Nakanishi (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information collection device comprising circuitry configured to: accumulate, in a database, a control signal of a local device having a motor, the local device being a part of a production system of one or more workpieces, the control signal including internal information of the local device generated during operation of a plurality of processes; extract a signal set accumulated during one pr...