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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,827, issued on March 25, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Tape cassette" was invented by Koshiro Yamaguchi (Kakamigahara, Japan), Akira Sago (Seto, Japan), Takashi Horiuchi (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiro Iriyama (Mie-gun, Japan), Yasuhiro Shibata (Okazaki, Japan), Tsuyoshi Nagae (Kasugai, Japan), Masato Kato (Kasugai, Japan) and Teruo Imamaki (Nissin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape cassette includes a box-like housing, a tape mounted within the housing, a hole and a first indicator portion. The housing includes a top wall having a top surface, a bottom wall having a bottom surface and opposing the top wal...