ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,517, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control device, system program, and method" was invented by Tadashi Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a control operation performing unit that performs control operation on a control target in accordance with a user program, a data collector that collects one or more pieces of data designated in advance and has the data stored in a storage designated in advance, and a data manager that manages shared information that can be accessed by the control operation performing unit and the data collector. The data collector write...