ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,035, issued on May 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording medium, simulation method, and simulation device" was invented by Ryo Kuya (Tokyo) and Visol Ahmed (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program causes a simulation device to function as an acquirer that acquires an execution program executable by a programmable controller and system configuration information indicating a configuration of a factory automation system, and a simulator that performs simulations of an operation of the programmable controller and an operation of the factory automation system by synchronizing, in predetermined cycles, a ...