ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,719, issued on June 10, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control system" was invented by Teruaki Sakata (Tokyo), Noritaka Matsumoto (Tokyo), Yusaku Otsuka (Tokyo) and Hidenori Omiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a control system that achieves both high reliability and versatility. A control system 100 of the present invention includes a control device 1 including an operating system 20, non-real-time software 21 executed on the operating system 20, and real-time software 22 executed on the operating system 20, an execution time analysis unit 50 that inputs and analyzes execution time infor...