ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,712, issued on June 10, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control system" was invented by Kouji Sekimoto (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system is configured by two-way communication conducted between a controller and a display terminal for displaying an operating state of the controller, and includes a processing time managing unit configured to measure time taken for processing pieces of data received from another end, and obtain from the other end and manage time taken on the other end for processing the pieces of data sent to the other end, and a congestion control unit configured to adju...