ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,193, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Monitoring device, monitoring system, and monitoring method for relay output signal" was invented by Yuuki Kurokawa (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device monitors an abnormality in number of times of repetition of opening/closing of an output signal of a relay, and identifies a cause of the abnormality if the abnormality in number of times of repetition of opening/closing of the output signal of the relay is detected. This monitoring device includes an output signal monitoring unit that monitors an abnormality in number of times of r...