ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,189, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Printer assembly with common module" was invented by Chang Xu (Charlotte, N.C.), Ramanathan Alaganchetty (Charlotte, N.C.) and Tiecheng Qu (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer assembly that includes a module and a first set of drive components is provided. The module includes a plurality of ports that are configured to be removably coupled to a corresponding drive component of the first set of drive components and further configured to be removably coupled to a corresponding drive component of a second set of drive components. Eac...