US Patent Issued to OMRON on Oct. 21 for "Information collecting system and information collecting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,783, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information collecting system and information collecting method" was invented by Seiji Mizutani (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information collecting system includes a first device including a counter, a second device that collects data from one or more sensing devices in response to a command from the first device, and a third device including a time-measuring unit that manages time. The first device adds, to the data collected by the second device, a first count value output from the counter at a timing when the second device collects the data, to...