ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,652, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA (Imola, Italy).

"Compression moulding machine and method" was invented by Massimo Balducci (Imola, Italy), Fabrizio Pucci (Castelguelfo, Italy) and Fiorenzo Parrinello (Medicina, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression moulding machine comprises: an extrusion unit configured to extrude a rod of pasty polymeric material; a cutting element, configured to portion the rod into individual charges; a rotary carousel, including a plurality of moulds, each mould being configured to receive a respective charge and to form a corresponding ...