ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,654, issued on March 17, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Food product scale and associated label stock justification assembly" was invented by Austin Knoblauch (Centerville, Ohio), Randall L. Redman (Beavercreek, Ohio), Robert Andrew Holmes (Worcester, Great Britain) and Ian D. Taylor (Warwickshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a printer body including a cassette station, and a media cassette including a media supply hub for holding media supply roll, wherein the media cassette is engageable in a loaded position in the cassette station and is removable from the cassette ...