ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,169, issued on March 24, was assigned to NISSEI ASB MACHINE Co. LTD. (Nagano, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing resin container" was invented by Tomokazu Komiyama (Nagano, Japan) and Atsushi Nagasaki (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a resin container includes: injection molding a preform made of a resin and having a body portion and a bottom portion; adjusting a temperature of the preform manufactured in the injection molding; and a blow molding step of blow-molding the preform having the adjusted temperature to manufacture a resin container. In the injection molding, the preform...