ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,196, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Controller, setting method, computer-readable recording medium, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Toinaga (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller transmits a request for input/output setting of data to a management server, receives input/output information that defines the input/output setting and that is associated with the controller that performs control of a system from the management server, and performs the input/output setting of the own instrument based on the received input/output inf...