ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,893, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canon Virginia Inc. (Newport News, Va.) and Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Injection molding system with conveyor devices to insert or eject molds" was invented by Yuichi Yanahara (Moriyama, Japan), Koki Kodaira (Tokyo), Hideo Matsumoto (Kusatsu, Japan), Nobunari Shimoe (Kusatsu, Japan), Hiroyuki Katagiri (Kusatsu, Japan), Tomoaki Ikeguchi (Kusatsu, Japan), Junko Tajima (Amsterdam) and Kenta Inaba (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detachably attaching a linking unit, including an end with a hole and a slit, to a mold, the method comprising inserting a first atta...