ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,984, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Controller of injection molding machine and method of controlling injection molding machine" was invented by Daigo Hotta (Chiba, Japan), Yutaka Tsutsumi (Chiba, Japan), Shun Shibuya (Chiba, Japan) and Yuki Matsui (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With respect to a controller of an injection molding machine, the injection molding machine includes an injection member provided inside a cylinder to heat a molding material and an injection drive source to fill the molding material into a mold device by moving the injection member forward. The control...