ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,160, issued on March 24, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control device of injection molding machine and injection molding machine" was invented by Daigo Hotta (Chiba, Japan), Hajime Ono (Chiba, Japan) and Naoki Kitaguchi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls an operation of an injection molding machine that advances and retracts an ejector rod of an ejector unit. The control device is configured to set a plurality of operation modes including a first operation mode and a second operation mode in which the injection molding machine is operated. The control device sets, at dif...