US Patent Issued to OMRON on July 29 for "Terminal monitoring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,938, issued on July 29, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Terminal monitoring device" was invented by Kenji Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention facilitates the confirmation of the state of a slave device. This terminal monitoring device (10) comprises: a terminal information acquisition unit (14) for acquiring, from terminals of a network, terminal information including the addresses of the respective terminals, information for each type, and information pertaining to communication states; and a terminal list screen generation unit (151) that generates a terminal list screen on which sel...