ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,407, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Injection molding machine and control device of injection molding machine" was invented by Kengo Tsuneishi (Chiba, Japan), Hirotsugu Marumoto (Chiba, Japan), Daigo Hotta (Chiba, Japan) and Hajime Ono (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding machine includes: a cylinder that holds a molding material to be injected into a mold; a plasticizing member provided in the cylinder so as to be movable and rotatable; a temperature measurer that measures a temperature of the cylinder or of the mold; and a period setting unit configured to ...