ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,863, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Injection moulding apparatus and method to reduce velocity increase of flow front during injection moulding" was invented by Erik Andreen (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection moulding apparatus including at least a first mould plate, the first mould plate having a first injection inlet arranged in fluid connection with a first gate leading into a mould cavity and a second injection inlet arranged in fluid connection with a second gate leadin...