US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 25 for "Tape cassette" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,828, issued on March 25, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Tape cassette" was invented by Shohei Tsuchimori (Nagoya, Japan), Yukiko Takami (Inazawa, Japan) and Takashi Horiuchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tape cassette includes a housing, a tape spool, a tape, a first guide, a second guide, and a plurality of pins. The housing has an outlet. The tape spool is held inside the housing. The tape is wound around the tape spool. The first guide is configured to guide the tape toward a detection position where tape information of the tape is detected by a sensor of a printer. The second guide is co...