US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on July 21 for "Printer" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,216, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer" was invented by Eugene Chan (Singapore) and Akira Suzuki (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer configured to form an image on roll paper includes a housing configured to house the roll paper and a first guide and a second guide coupled to the housing, the first guide and the second guide each being movable in a width direction of the roll paper, and the first guide being separated from the second guide in the width direction to hold the roll paper therebetween. The printer further includes a detection assembly configured to detect a positio...