ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,496, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Printer system" was invented by Katsuhisa Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] To provide a printer system that can be easily produced by easily assembling a plurality of modules.[Solution] A printer system 1 includes a plurality of modules 10, 30, and 20 that are coupled to each other. Each of the modules 10, 30, and 20 has a housing 11, 31, or 21 and a coupling body 15, 35, or 25. One of the housing 11, 31, or 21 and the coupling body 15, 35, or 25 has an insertion hole 16, 36, or 26, and the other one of the housing 11, 31, or 21 and the cou...