ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,973, issued on April 15, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control system" was invented by Yoshihide Nishiyama (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuhiro Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan), Shigeyuki Eguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Katsuhiko Azuma (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for factory automation includes a first unit and a second unit each including a timer, a data line over which data containing a timer value indicated by the timer is exchanged between the first unit and the second unit, a signal line that electrically connects the first unit and the second unit, and an adjustment module connected to the signal line and ...