ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,968, issued on June 3, was assigned to YUSHIN PRECISION EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Apparatus for taking out molded product using vacuum sucker with controller that determines sucking operation start time based on a stable time interval" was invented by Hiroki Kida (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Ikeda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for taking out a molded product that does not require an operator to determine the sucking operation start time for a vacuum sucker by himself/herself by trial and error is provided. A controller includes a time interval measuring section configured to measure a time interval judging...