US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on May 13 for "Tape cassette" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,580, issued on May 13, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including ...