US Patent Issued to OMRON on March 18 for "Control system and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,076, issued on March 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control system and control method" was invented by Yoshihide Nishiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuta Nagata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes plural units. The plural units include a master unit connected to a bus and a slave unit connected to the bus, the slave unit communicating with the master unit via the bus. The master unit includes a nonvolatile memory that stores first security information as information to be concealed, and the slave unit includes a volatile memory. The slave unit receives the first security information from...