US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 17 for "Tape printing apparatus and control method of tape printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,651, issued on March 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape printing apparatus acquires a printing start command, and when a margin distance, which is a distance from a leading end of a tape to a printing start position of the tape, is shorter than a sensor-head distance, which is a distance between a detection position and a printing position, and the leading end of the tape is located in a second feeding direction with respect to the...