ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,698, issued on April 7, was assigned to Thermoware Particle Foam Machinery B.V. (Barneveld, Netherlands).

"Mould for particle foam moulding" was invented by Jacob Lof (Barneveld, Netherlands), Sebastiaan Sarkun Weij (Barneveld, Netherlands) and Jacob Hendrik Lodders (Barneveld, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mould for particle foam moulding (10), for example dry moulding, comprising: a first mould section (1); a second mould section (2) movable with respect to the first mould section, between: a closed position, in which the first mould section (1) and the second mould section (2) define a cavity (3); a semi-closed positi...