US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 22 for "System in which plural controlled devices and main control device are connected via network" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,710, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"System in which plural controlled devices and main control device are connected via network" was invented by Yasuhiro Watanabe (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system, a plurality of controlled devices, including a first controlled device and a second controlled device, and a main control device configured to control the plurality of controlled devices are connected via a network. The main control device includes a communicator configured to transmit and receive a data frame including a plurality of data areas via the network in a predetermined cycle, a...