ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,185, issued on July 8, was assigned to UDMTEK Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for extracting common command information from PLC ladder information" was invented by Gi Nam Wang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jun Pyo Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Geun Ho Yu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Woo Han (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Gang Hee Han (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Min Young Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sang Chul Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for extracting common command information from programmable logic controller (PLC) ladder information according to th...