ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,180, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG (Hochheim, Germany).
"Optimized injection mold plate, and injection mold comprising same" was invented by Peter Suss (Messel, Germany), Christian Tilsner (Weiterstadt, Germany) and Christian Wagner (Mainz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection moulding tool plate for use in an injection moulding tool for producing a plurality v of preforms having a plurality of handling elements arranged in columns and rows, wherein the distance r between adjacent handling elements within the rows is greater than the distance s between adjacent handling elements wi...