ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,162, issued on June 10, 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), Yohei Minatoya (Bunkyo-ku, Japan) and Junko Tajima (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding system includes an injection molding apparatus configured to perform injection molding with a mold, a conveyor apparatus configured to move the mold along a supporting plane; and a cable carrier configured to cover a cable connected to the mold, wherein a shap...