US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Dec. 16 for "Print cassette" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,843, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Print cassette" was invented by Kosuke Higashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Kentaro Murayama (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print cassette includes a print tape roll in which a print tape is wound around a winding central axis parallel to a first direction, an input gear to which a driving force is to be input from outside, an idle gear directly or indirectly engaging the input gear and the output gear to transmit the driving force input to the input gear to the output gear. At least a portion of the input gear, at least a portion of the output gear...