ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,009, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Controller for injection molding machine, injection molding machine, and control method for injection molding machine" was invented by Yuta Nesaki (Chiba, Japan) and Yuichi Inada (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is for an injection molding machine including an injecting member configured to push a molding material in a forward direction, the molding material containing a bioplastic; and an injection drive source configured to cause the injecting member to travel forward or backward. The controller is configured to perform filling...