ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,027, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and roll holding device" was invented by Itaru Wada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Harigae (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a printing apparatus for performing printing on a sheet drawn out from a roll including: a roll holding unit configured to hold the roll; a support unit configured to rotatably support the roll holding unit; a core portion provided to the roll holding unit and configured to be inserted into a hollow portion of a core pipe of the roll from an end portion of the core pipe to extend along an axis of the core pipe; a contact...