US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on July 14 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,128, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Sadatoshi Oishi (Fuji Shizuoka, Japan) and Masakazu Kato (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a printing apparatus mounts an ink ribbon provided with a wireless tag storing a digital certificate that is generated using an encryption algorithm on the basis of a private key and a unique identifier (ID) of the wireless tag. The printing apparatus communicates with the wireless tag, and reads the unique ID of the wireless tag and also reads the digital certificate stored in the wireless tag....