ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,893, issued on March 18, was assigned to Teijin Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing press-molded body" was invented by Keizo Yokoyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a press-molded body, the method having a step for disposing an X material inside a mold, a step for closing the mold and extruding a Y material, which is a kneaded material, into the mold after pressure has begun to be applied to part of the X material, and a step for cold-pressing and integrally molding the X material and the Y material inside the mold, wherein: the X material includes re...