ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,989, issued on June 3, was assigned to NISSEI ASB MACHINE Co. LTD. (Nagano, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing resin wide-mouthed container, manufacturing device, and resin wide-mouthed container" was invented by Ryo Kawamura (Nagano, Japan), Atsushi Nagasaki (Nagano, Japan), Manabu Ogihara (Nagano, Japan), Tomokazu Komiyama (Nagano, Japan) and Muneyoshi Aikawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a resin wide-mouthed container includes at least: injection-molding a bottomed preform made of resin; and blow-molding the injection-molded preform. During the injection molding, the preform is injection-mo...