ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,141, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Injection molding machine, control method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Soma Mitani (Tokyo) and Shogo Kosue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding machine includes a screw provided in a cylinder having a nozzle at a tip so that the screw is allowed to be driven in a rotational direction and an axial direction, a drive device configured to drive the screw, and a control device configured to control an operation of the drive device, wherein the drive device has a rotatably provided ball screw shaft ...