ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,229, issued on May 20, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Tape cassette" was invented by Koshiro Yamaguchi (Kakamigahara, Japan), Masato Kato (Kasugai, Japan), Tsuyoshi Nagae (Kasugai, Japan), Teruo Imamaki (Nissin, Japan), Takashi Horiuchi (Kariya, Japan), Akira Sago (Seto, Japan) and Yasuhiro Shibata (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape cassette that includes a housing having a front wall and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape at least partially included within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and tape type indicator apert...