ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,667, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Synchronization device and storage medium" was invented by Yuichi Kizu (Tokyo), Takashi Kai (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Sekiguchi (Tokyo) and Hidetoshi Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronization device includes: a machine data acquisition unit acquiring, as machine data, time-series information regarding driving of a machine; a measurement data acquisition unit acquiring, as measurement data, time-series information regarding a state of the machine; a correlation calculation unit calculating a correlation time difference which is a time difference when...