ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,942, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"PLC device and recording medium" was invented by Yaoki Takashima (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a PLC device having a first PLC and a second PLC, the PLC device comprising: a measurement unit that causes PLC execution units of the first PLC and the second PLC to execute test run of a sequence program and measures a period between start and end of the sequence program for each of the first PLC and the second PLC; a timing adjustment information calculation unit that uses the measured periods to calculate timing adjustment informati...