US Patent Issued to OPTON on July 1 for "Control program generation apparatus, control program generation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,096, issued on July 1, was assigned to OPTON Co. LTD. (Aichi, Japan).

"Control program generation apparatus, control program generation method, and program" was invented by Haining Lu (Aichi, Japan), Toshihiro Kani (Aichi, Japan), Hidenori Ozaki (Aichi, Japan) and Teruaki Yogo (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control program is automatically created using an action chart that is easy to create for an automated manufacturing machine with a complex operation. A subchart is pre-created for a set of consecutive subperiods of multiple subperiods included in an action chart. The action chart includes a subchart representation ...