ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,546, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording medium and programming support apparatus" was invented by Shinya Nawata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program causes a programming support apparatus that provides support for generation of an operational program for operating a programmable controller to function as an acquirer for acquiring a first source code of the operational program, and a generator. The generator generates a second source code of the operational program by replacing a conventional FB that is described in the first source code and describes a function of a function bl...