US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 14 for "Tape printing apparatus and control method of tape printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,117, issued on July 14, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tape printing apparatus and control method of tape printing apparatus" was invented by Kenji Motai (Matsumoto, Japan), Taishi Sasaki (Matsumoto, Japan) and Keisuke Taruya (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape printing apparatus includes a feeding mechanism that feeds, a label tape in which a plurality of labels are disposed at equal intervals on a mount tape and a detection hole is provided at a position corresponding to each of the labels, a printing head that performs printing on the labels of the label tape, a sensor that detects the detection hol...