ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,015, issued on July 14, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Injection molding machine for foam molding and method for controlling injection molding machine" was invented by Akihiro Naito (Tokyo) and Takuya Yufu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding machine includes a heating cylinder having a gas inlet, a screw, a gas cylinder, a pressure reducing valve configured to reduce a primary pressure of a gas from the gas cylinder to a secondary pressure, a gas supply portion configured to supply the gas at the secondary pressure to the gas inlet, an injection material pressure detection device configure...