US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Feb. 10 for "Control system, control method, and programmable logic controller" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,142, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control system, control method, and programmable logic controller" was invented by Hidekazu Higashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable logic controller (PLC) system includes a PLC module connectable to an external device (19) and a data collection-analysis module (13). The data collection-analysis module (13) is connected to the PLC module through signal lines (16). The data collection-analysis module (13) includes a real-time processor (21) that is operable by a real-time operating system and performs, when target data collected from the PL...