US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on Sept. 15 for "Industrial wireless system, root node and programmable logic controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,302, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Industrial wireless system, root node and programmable logic controller" was invented by Tatsuo Sumino (Osaka, Japan), Kazutoshi Tatsuta (Osaka, Japan) and Shinya Takahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial device that collects data on other industrial devices can also collect state information on a wireless network. A first industrial device collects data such as an operation history from a second industrial device via a wireless network constructed by a root node and a peripheral wireless node. The root node collects state information ...