ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,055, issued on June 10, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Editing device editing print data via display device for creating composite label with printing device" was invented by Misato Osuka (Nagoya, Japan), Ryuichi Kanda (Nagoya, Japan), Masashi Iwamoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuichiro Suzuki (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label ...