ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,715, issued on June 10, was assigned to YUSHIN PRECISION EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Apparatus for taking out molded product" was invented by Koji Ikeda (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroki Kida (Kyoto, Japan) and Fumitake Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus for taking out a molded product, which is capable of determining occurrence of a suction error and/or likelihood of a suction error of the molded product with high accuracy and of knowing a cause thereof. A pressure data storing section stores time-series pressure data from a pressure detector. A suction error cause determining section determi...