US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Dec. 9 for "Printing apparatus and print cassette" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,723, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and print cassette" was invented by Kentaro Murayama (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing apparatus main body, and a print cassette attachable to and detachable from the printing apparatus main body. The print cassette includes a roll of a first tape, a supply spool rotatable about a rotation axis, a second tape wound around the supply spool and used for printing or protecting of the first tape, an output gear to output a driving force outside, an input spool rotatable about a rotation axis....