US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Jan. 27 for "Tape cassette including tape and cover film, and method of creating labels with the tape cassette" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,645, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Tape cassette including tape and cover film, and method of creating labels with the tape cassette" was invented by Shohei Tsuchimori (Nagoya, Japan), Yuki Hokari (Nagoya, Japan), Chie Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan) and Takahiro Norimatsu (Hekinan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape cassette includes a tape, a transparent cover film, and an ink ribbon. The tape has a thickness in a thickness direction and a width in a width direction. The tape is configured of a plurality of laminated layers including: a transparent base layer; a background layer having a...