ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,601, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NISSEI ASB MACHINE Co. LTD. (Nagano, Japan).

"Temperature adjustment mold and apparatus and method for producing resin container" was invented by Kiyonori Shimada (Nagano, Japan), Tomomi Tsuchiya (Nagano, Japan), Koichi Ikeda (Nagano, Japan) and Yuya Miyasaka (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature adjustment mold capable of performing local temperature adjustment in an axial direction from the inside of a preform while restricting shrinkage and deformation of the preform, for adjusting a temperature of an injection-molded bottomed resin-made preform includes a rod portion ins...