US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 30 for "Tape cassette" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,794, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape cassette that includes a tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear wall, a front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the hou...