US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on April 21 for "Cutting device and printing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,945, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cutting device and printing device" was invented by Koichi Ando (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device includes: a cutter positioned on a conveyance path for conveying a fabric medium and configured to cut the fabric medium into a predetermined length; a placement surface defining a part of the conveyance path receiving the cut fabric medium; a rotation shaft positioned above the conveyance path and configured to rotate in a conveyance direction of the fabric medium; a paddle portion attached to the rotation shaft and configured to ...