US Patent Issued to OMRON on Sept. 23 for "Control system, relay device, and access management program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,811, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control system, relay device, and access management program" was invented by Kotaro Okamura (Kyoto, Japan) and Naoki Hirobe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a control unit configured to control a control object and communicate with an external device, and a relay unit configured to relay access from the external device to the control unit. The relay unit includes a reception unit configured to receive an authentication request from a request source, an authentication unit configured to authenticate validity of the request sour...