ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,897, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Scada web HMI system" was invented by Takaharu Hashizume (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Fujieda (Tokyo), Ryo Shimizu (Tokyo), Akira Nojima (Tokyo) and Nobuo Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A SCADA web HMI system draws an HMI screen including a first material-to-be-rolled part arranged in a first zone and an extendable/contractible second material-to-be-rolled part arranged in a second zone. The first and second material-to-be-rolled parts are drawn at each drawing cycle shorter than a reception cycle of PLC signals. At each drawing cycle after a first PLC signal is received...