US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 4 for "Tape cassette" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,258, issued on March 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tape cassette includes a housing, a tape roll, a tape, an outlet, a first guide, first opening, second opening, a first rotation body, and a second rotation body. The first guide is configured to guide the tape that has been conveyed through a detection position toward the outlet. The first opening opens toward a first surface of the tape. The second opening opens toward a second surface of th...