US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 18 for "Printing device setting printing area, anchor area, and adhesive area in tape for performing half cut at boundaries therebetween" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,928, issued on March 18, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing device setting printing area, anchor area, and adhesive area in tape for performing half cut at boundaries therebetween" was invented by Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Kuwana, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a printing device, a controller performs at least one of a first area setting process and a second area setting process to set an anchor area and adhesive area next to two ends of a printing area based on an acquired length of an object. In the first area setting process the adhesive area is set to have a length to be a lamination length. In the se...