US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 21 for "Support rod and printing machine" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,205, issued on July 21, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Support rod and printing machine" was invented by Qifeng Xu (Glenview, Ill.), Jian Zhang (Glenview, Ill.) and Zhanqing Guo (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a support rod for a cleaning paper roll of a printer, and a printer using the support rod, the support rod comprising: a first connecting part, a second connecting part and a main body part, the first connecting part being connected to a device; the second connecting part being connected to the device; the main body part being located between the first...