ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,413, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Debugging assistance device, control system, debugging assistance method, and recording medium" was invented by Tetsuo Yano (Tokyo), Shin Nakamura (Tokyo), Koki Murano (Tokyo) and Yuki Yamanouchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input-output data collector collects, from a programmable logic controller, input-output data representing a log for a device in a program predetermined as a logging target program of one or more programs executable by the programmable logic controller. An input-output data generator generates, when a debugging target program ...