ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,603, issued on May 13, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Printing cassette with gear" was invented by Shinji Ukai (Kiyosu, Japan) and Kentaro Murayama (Kasugai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing cassette includes: a case including a first case portion, a second case portion, and a third case portion; a first tape, at least a portion of which is accommodated in the third case portion; and a gear, a portion of which is accommodated in the second case portion and the other portion of which is located outside of the case, the gear being rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to a first direction. The fi...