ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,091, issued on May 19, was assigned to ENGEL AUSTRIA GMBH (Schwertberg, Austria).

"Operating unit for a molding machine" was invented by Klemens Springer (Leonding, Austria), David Muehlehner (Neumarkt, Austria), Albin Kern (Schwertberg, Austria) and Friedrich Pernkopf (Gramastetten, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating unit for a molding machine includes a support, a screen part mounted pivotable on the support, and an operating part mounted pivotable on the screen part and/or the support. The pivotability of the screen part and the operating part results in different use positions for an operator. The operating part i...