US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 17 for "Food product scale and associated label cassette with cassette load features" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,653, issued on March 17, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Food product scale and associated label cassette with cassette load features" was invented by Hugh A. Connell (Evesham, Great Britain), Robert Andrew Holmes (Worcester, Great Britain), Ian D. Taylor (Warwickshire, Great Britain), Randall L. Redman (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Austin Knoblauch (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a printer body including a cassette station, a printhead, and a media cassette for holding a media that moves past the printhead during printing. The media cassette is engageable in a loaded positi...