US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 17 for "Ribbon cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,659, issued on March 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ribbon cartridge" was invented by Atsushi Yanagisawa (Matsumoto, Japan) and Akio Ishimoto (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a ribbon cartridge, in which a cartridge case is provided with a cartridge-side tape inlet, and a cartridge-side tape outlet, a first case portion and a second case portion are combined by a plurality of case engagement portions including a second B engagement pin provided at the second case portion and a first B engagement hole provided at the first case portion and engaged with the second B engagement pin, and...