ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,904, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control system, relay device, and relay program" 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 unit, a transmission unit, an application execution unit, and an arbitration unit that arbitrates a data set exchanged between the transmission unit and the application execution unit. The arbitration means includes a first acquisition unit that acquires information about pieces of process data managed by the control unit, a second acquisition unit that acquires information abou...