US Patent Issued to OMRON on Oct. 14 for "Support device monitoring function blocks of user program, non-transitory storage medium storing support program thereon, and control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,159, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Support device monitoring function blocks of user program, non-transitory storage medium storing support program thereon, and control system" was invented by Ryosuke Fujimura (Kyoto, Japan), Hiromu Suganuma (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroko Kubo (Kyoto, Japan) and Asahi Matsui (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support device includes an interface configured to establish connection to a controller, the controller being configured to execute a user program including a function block, a storage unit configured to store a monitoring condition in which a data type of t...