ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,217, issued on July 21, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing device, and printing cassette including case that houses input part, output part, and transmission mechanism for transmitting drive force from input part to output part" was invented by Shinji Ukai (Kiyosu, Japan) and Kentaro Murayama (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes a printing cassette, and a platen roller. The printing cassette includes: a print tape; an input part into which a drive force is to be inputted; an output part rotatable about a rotational axis extending in a first direction; a transmission mech...