ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,193, issued on March 24, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo).

"Production apparatus for producing a fiber-reinforced resin and a production method for producing a fiber-reinforced resin" was invented by Masahiro Yano (Nagoya, Japan) and Atsushi Miyata (Urayasu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides an apparatus that is for producing a fiber-reinforced resin having reinforcement fibers aligned in one direction and that is capable of, with a relatively simple configuration, connecting a preceding reinforcement fiber and a subsequent reinforcement fiber when switching between the reinforcement ...