US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Nov. 3 for "Label affixing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,481, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Label affixing device" was invented by Shota Iijima (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A label affixing device includes a transport portion transporting a print tape in a transport direction, a cutting portion cutting a label material of the print tape into an individual label, a peeling portion peeling away of the label, and a controller. The label material is cut to form a margin region between a preceding label being one of the labels and a following label positioned upstream of the preceding label in the transport direction. When a downstream en...