ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,091, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NISSEI ASB MACHINE Co. LTD. (Nagano, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for producing resin container" was invented by Yoichi Tsuchiya (Nagano, Japan) and Kazuya Ishizaka (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a resin container includes injection-molding a resin intermediate molded body of bottomed cylindrical shape as a first injection-molding, injection-molding a resin material outside the intermediate molded body as a second injection-molding, to produce a multilayer preform in which a resin layer is layered on an outer peripheral side of the intermediate molded body,...