ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,956, issued on April 15, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control system, support device and support program that communicates grouped process data" was invented by Takuya Ueki (Ritto, Japan) and Yuta Nagata (Kusatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a control device, an information processing device, a grouper, and a generator. The control device executes a control program controlling a control target while managing process data of the control program. The control device transmits one or more types of data sets storing a part of the process data according to a communication setting. The infor...