ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,471, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Medium issuing device, medium issuing system and medium issuing method" was invented by Tomohiro Hoshi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium issuing device includes a medium conveyance part, a print head, a sensor disposed on an upstream side of a conveyance passage with respect to the print head, a head drive part which moves the print head between a standby position and a printing position, a ribbon feeding part, and a control part. The control part controls so that, when detected that the sensor is turned on by a medium, the medium is ...