ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,804, issued on March 25, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Program development device, and program for providing program development device" was invented by Takeshi Jinkawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program development device provides a development environment of a user program executed by a control device. The program development device receives setting of an attribute related to reference from a program for each of one or more variables used in the user program including a first program and a second program having a calling relationship. The set attribute includes a first attribute referred to by an...