ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,967, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Controller" was invented by Shinichi Ozeki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes a display control unit configured to switch information to be displayed in each of a plurality of split regions due to splitting of a display screen, an editing-screen display unit configured to display an editing screen displaying, for each of the plurality of split regions, as a list, a first displaying and a second displaying in association, the first displaying enabling visual specification of a position of the corresponding split region on the d...