ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,575, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SEIKOH GIKEN Co. Ltd. (Matsudo, Japan).

"In-mold coat injection device" was invented by Masami Suzuki (Matsudo, Japan), Norihiro Kakinuma (Matsudo, Japan) and Arihito Iida (Matsudo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided with a compact in-mold coat injection device where the accuracy of the amount of injecting liquid coating agent (e.g., coating composition) is high and manufacturing yield of the coating composition is good. An in-mold coat injection device 1 configured to hold a molding base material 2 on one mold 3, press the other mold 4 against the one mold 3 to cover the molding bas...