US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Nov. 3 for "Printer and printing cassette" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,883, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printer and printing cassette" was invented by Shinji Ukai (Kiyosu, Japan), Yuya Tagami (Nagoya, Japan) and Atsuo Hirose (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a print head, a platen roller facing the print head, a driving source, a drive shaft connected to be driven to the driving source and rotatable about a rotation axis thereof, a platen gear connected to be driven to the platen roller, and a cassette mounting portion at which the print head and the drive shaft are disposed. A printing cassette including a to-be-printed tape, an i...