ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,874, issued on April 21, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus of manufacturing resin composite material" was invented by Koichi Kimura (Tokyo), Takuya Miura (Tokyo), Shota Watanabe (Tokyo) and Ayaka Shiosaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method of manufacturing a resin composite material that are capable of stabilizing a raw-material supply amount and improving manufacturing efficiency of the resin composite material are provided. The apparatus 10 of manufacturing the resin composite material includes: a raw-material supply portion 11 supplying a thermoplastic resin and...