ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,963, issued on March 17, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and OKAYAMA NISSO ELECTRIC Corp. (Okayama, Japan).

"Hydraulic circuit control device and molding machine" was invented by Satoru Ito (Kariya, Japan), Takafumi Yoshida (Kariya, Japan), Ken Nakanishi (Okayama, Japan) and Tokuzo Sekiyama (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic circuit control device includes: a drive motor; a drive-side cylinder including a drive-side fluid chamber and a drive-side piston that is moved by the drive motor; a driven-side cylinder including a driven-side fluid chamber, a fluid path that connects the driven-side fluid c...