ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,117, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Incoe Corp. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Hot runner process controller" was invented by Christian Striegel (Hainburg, Germany), Anton Joerg (Grossostheim, Germany), Scott Greb (Washington Township, Mich.) and Thomas Braun (Hof, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot runner process controller configured to monitor the status and operation of a hot runner system to autonomously generate information to improve the quality of injection molding process of a hot runner system having an inlet nozzle, one or more manifolds and one or more nozzles with actuator or without actuator, and one or more heat...