US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on April 14 for "Integrated pressure sensing of filtered molten material" (Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,068, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Integrated pressure sensing of filtered molten material" was invented by Tyra Ray Redmon (Manchester, Ohio) and Robert Lewis Ritchie (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molten material processing control system, such as a plastic injection molding system, is provided with a pressure sensor, such as a melt pressure transducer, in fluid communication with filtered molten material, thereby ensuring the molten material to which the pressure sensor is exposed is free from inconsistencies, impurities, unmelted plastic pellets, or other debris. In o...