ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,990, issued on June 3, was assigned to NISSEI ASB MACHINE Co. LTD. (Nagano, Japan).

"Resin container manufacturing device and manufacturing method" was invented by Yasuhiro Hidaka (Nagano, Japan) and Tomoaki Tsuchiya (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a resin container manufacturing apparatus configured to stretch a preform disposed in a stretch blow molding mold by a stretching rod and stretch the preform by introducing blow air into the preform so as to form a resin container. The resin container manufacturing apparatus includes detection means for detecting an actual position of the stretching rod inser...