ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,435, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Industrial wireless systems, primary wireless node, and secondary wireless node" was invented by Seiya Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Ryosuke Tsujikawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial wireless system includes a primary wireless node wire-connected to a first industrial device and a secondary wireless node wirelessly connected to the primary wireless node, and mediates data communication between a second industrial device and the first industrial device. The primary wireless node has a communication port that is wire-connected to the first ind...