ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,025, issued on May 27, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control device and control method" was invented by Yoshihiro Nakatani (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes an arithmetic processing part, a programmable circuit part, and an abnormality notification part. The programmable circuit part includes a storage part, an abnormality detection part, and an abnormality recording part. The storage part stores a configuration data. The abnormality detection part detects a soft error of the storage part. The abnormality recording part records information of the soft error detected by the abnormali...