ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,966, issued on April 21, was assigned to SHISEIDO COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Cosmetic product molding apparatus and method of molding rod-shaped cosmetic product in cosmetic product molding apparatus" was invented by Hisayoshi Yamashita (Tokyo), Toshifumi Urashima (Tokyo) and Yurie Nishiumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cosmetic product molding apparatus 100 includes a plurality of molds 1, each mold 1 having a bottomed cylindrical shape and including a cylindrical recessed portion, the cylindrical recessed portion being configured to be filled with a cosmetic composition L for a rod-shaped cosmetic product, an outer cylinder ...