US Patent Issued to FANUC on Aug. 25 for "I/O unit and communication system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,298, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

"I/O unit and communication system" was invented by Masahiro Saeki (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan), Shinichi Kuwahata (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan) and Asunaro Maeda (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O unit comprises: a plurality of first-stage-side terminals for connecting to a master unit or another I/O unit; a plurality of second-stage-side terminals that are provided in order to connect to the other I/O unit, and are connected to mutually distinct first-stage-side terminals; and a slave process circuit that performs signal processing and i...