US Patent Issued to OMRON on April 15 for "Control system, setting device, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,958, issued on April 15, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control system, setting device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Ryota Akai (Kyoto, Japan), Mitsuhiro Yoneda (Kyoto, Japan), Taiga Niimi (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuyuki Sakatani (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigenori Sawada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a control target and plural devices, and the control target and the devices are connected to a network. The control system includes a program storage provided in each device storing a control program that calculates control data using data exchanged with the control target...