ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,138, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Mold, method of producing product, method of producing image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Toshiteru Yamasaki (Yokohama, Japan), Nobuharu Hoshi (Yokohama, Japan), Junichi Matsumura (Numazu, Japan), Akira Suzuki (Naka-gun, Japan) and Hiroki Akatsuka (Ushiku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold includes a rotatable portion, a frame portion, a first and second portion, and a production unit. The rotatable portion has a plurality of surfaces and a plurality of forming portions. The plurality of surfaces is each...