ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,527, issued on April 22, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Injection molding machine management system" was invented by Yusuke Mitsuma (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yoshiaki Otsuki (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding machine management system, which manages an injection molding unit including an injection molding machine and a peripheral device that performs a previous step or a subsequent step of a molding step, includes a first display unit that displays a first screen for displaying a state of the molding step of the injection molding machine. The first screen includes a first screen area and a s...