ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,332, issued on July 1, was assigned to OMTON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Master device, arithmetic processing device, programmable logic controller, network, and method" was invented by Yasunori Fukuda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of slaves include a first slave constituting the start and end points of a ring wiring and a plurality of second slaves connected between the start and end points, the ring wiring being capable of configuring a first path via which the second slaves cause data accepted from the start point side to be cyclically transferred to the end point side, and a second path for each slave to loop...