ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,514, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Molded body and production method thereof" was invented by Rentarou Akimoto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded body according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a molded body obtained by molding resin and used by allowing light to pass through the resin. In this molded body, a gate mark as a mark of a gate through which resin was injected during molding is disposed to a bonding surface to be bonded to an other member having no light transmittance, that is, to a bonding surface in the molded body."

The patent was filed on May 16, 2022, un...