ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,918, issued on June 23, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printer and sheet support device" was invented by Takeshi Kobayashi (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a printer includes: a pair of support shafts that are supported by the casing, inserted into an inner periphery of an ink ribbon wound into a cylinder, and support the ink ribbon hung around a printing device. The printer further includes a driven shaft that is connected to one end of each of the support shafts so as to be movable along a longitudinal direction of the corresponding support shaft. The printer further incl...