ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,702, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Manufacturing method of molded article, molded article, band timepiece" was invented by Kazuyuki Tanabe (Koshu, Japan) and Masato Ueno (Tama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded article includes a primary molded article which is made of a soft material and includes an exposed section and an embedded section, and a secondary molded article in which the embedded section of the primary molded article is embedded with the exposed section being exposed and which has shoulder sections that laterally project outside an outer periphery of the primary molded...