ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,391, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Program generation apparatus and program generation method" was invented by Kohei Fujita (Tokyo) and Toshimitsu Ushio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating efficiency of a target to be controlled is enhanced, and a degree of freedom in converting a language of a program is enhanced. A program generation apparatus includes: a design information conversion unit that converts design information, which includes a plurality of states of a device, relationships between signals and the states of the device, and ti...