ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,703, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Injection molding machine" was invented by Hirotsugu Marumoto (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding machine includes a screw to which a tag including identification information that is readable by a reading unit is attached, a drive unit that performs rotation and advancing and retreating of the screw, and a control device that controls the drive unit, the control device performs a control of moving of the tag to a reading position at which the identification information is read by the reading unit."
The patent was filed on...