US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on March 11 for "Thermal transfer system including heating element having contact portion with multiple projecting portions" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,542, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Thermal transfer system including heating element having contact portion with multiple projecting portions" was invented by Nobuyuki Kamitani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal transfer system includes a winding portion that winds an ink ribbon that includes a support layer and an ink layer after ink in the ink layer is transferred to a transfer receiver, and a heating element that transfers the ink in the ink layer of the ink ribbon to the support layer of the ink ribbon that is located inside the ink ribbon that is wound around the winding...