US Patent Issued to OMRON on March 18 for "Unit, unit control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,841, issued on March 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Unit, unit control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yoshihide Nishiyama (Yokohama, Japan) and Yuta Nagata (Kusatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology with which it is possible to access a function unit to be accessed without ascertaining an IP address of the function unit. Provided is a unit comprising: a communication unit for relaying a communication between an external device connected to a first network and another unit connected to a second network; a setting unit for acquiring address ...