ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,272, issued on June 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing apparatus control method, manufacturing system, control apparatus, and molded article manufacturing method" was invented by Junichi Matsumura (Shizuoka, Japan), Kengo Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiki Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuharu Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiteru Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The manufacturing apparatus includes a nozzle, an injection cylinder, an injection plunger, a plunger pressing member, and a movable unit for moving the plunger pressing member. The movable unit has a...