ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,455, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Mold device" was invented by Hirotsune Watanabe (Toyota, Japan), So Nakayama (Toyota, Japan), Akinobu Kawai (Toyota, Japan) and Hiroyuki Hamaguchi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold device includes a frame that is a vertical wall having a first surface that is a vertical surface to which a holding mechanism is mounted and supported only by the first surface. A fixed mold base supporting a fixed mold, one surface thereof fixed to the first surface of the frame, and a mobile mold base supporting a mobile mold, the mobile mold base held by ...