ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,090, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Extrusion molding die and extrusion molding machine" was invented by Kosuke Iwata (Ichinomiya, Japan), Ryuji Yamaguchi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuichi Tajima (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion molding die includes a pair of die bodies, the die bodies have: a pair of lip portions arranged so as to face each other to form a slit port; and a pair of introduction portions arranged so as to face each other to form an introduction port. One die body is a coat hanger die having at least one thickness adjustment mechanism, and the other die body ...