ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,462, issued on Sept. 23, 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: "The 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. This molded body includes: a plurality of gate marks each being as a mark of a gate through which the resin was injected during the molding; and a weld part disposed in such a manner as to avoid a position where the light passes through the resin."

The patent was filed on May 16, 20...