US Patent Issued to ARMOR on April 22 for "Removable supporting device to support an endless ribbon" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,608, issued on April 22, was assigned to ARMOR (Nantes, France).

"Removable supporting device to support an endless ribbon" was invented by Juan Rodriguez (As, Belgium), Maxime Charrier (Trementines, France) and Frans Hegge (Hamont-Achel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removable supporting device includes a frame; an endless ribbon; and a supporting system to support the endless ribbon, the supporting system including at least two rollers connected to the frame; the at least two rollers including a first connecting system adapted to cooperate with a first complementary connecting system of a thermal transfer printing apparat...