US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 1 for "Printing cassette" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,409, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing cassette to be attached to and detached from a printing apparatus main body is provided. The printing apparatus main body includes a drive shaft rotatable around an axis. The printing cassette includes: a first tape; a spool around which the first tape is wound or is to be wound and rotatable around a rotational axis parallel to a first direction; a first engaging portion of the spool configured to transmit a driving force of a drive shaft to the spo...