US Patent Issued to HOSIDEN on April 21 for "Control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,101, issued on April 21, was assigned to HOSIDEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Control apparatus" was invented by Yoshifumi Yamanaka (Osaka, Japan), Shingo Okano (Osaka, Japan), Tomoki Umeda (Osaka, Japan) and Kouta Onoyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus that bidirectionally communicates with a control unit based on a preset time-sharing method includes: a plurality of devices each installed on a different substrate; a communication controller daisy-chained to the control unit via a bus line through which bidirectional communication of communication data is performed, the communication data having a data s...