US Patent Issued to SATO on March 24 for "Printer and cutter unit of printer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,240, issued on March 24, was assigned to SATO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printer and cutter unit of printer" was invented by Junichi Okamoto (Minato-ku, Japan) and Shinichiro Hosono (Minato-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a cutter unit attachable to and detachable from a printer body, wherein the cutter unit includes a cutter unit body configured to hold a cutter blade that cuts a print medium, and a cutter unit cover having a discharge port configured to allow the print medium to be discharged therethrough, and pivotally supported by an opening and closing shaft so as to be openable and closable with respect to the...