US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Aug. 12 for "Safety control device and safety rule adjustment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,359, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Safety control device and safety rule adjustment method" was invented by Nobuyasu Kanekawa (Tokyo), Junya Takahashi (Tokyo), Satoshi Otsuka (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem of ensuring safety and work efficiency for the actions of a control target is addressed in an environment in which different types of control systems coexist. A safety control server controls the actions of respective control targets in differing systems and includes an action adjustment unit that, for each control target of differing control systems, output...