ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,592, issued on May 27, was assigned to KYORAKU Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Molding system, support arm, resin molding device, method for supporting supported member, mold, and method for producing molded body" was invented by Yuki Harasawa (Yamato, Japan), Takeshi Kato (Kakamigahara, Japan), Tsutomu Ouchi (Tsuchiura, Japan), Tatsuya Fukuda (Kakamigahara, Japan), Yosuke Hayashi (Yamato, Japan), Takafumi Funato (Yamato, Japan) and Seiji Ono (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molding system capable of reducing molding defects including first and second parison forming devices; first and second molds configured to be opened an...