ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,931, issued on May 6, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Tape roll and tape mounter" was invented by Yoshinori Kakinuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape roll includes a cylindrical core, a strip-shaped tape wound on the core, and a marking portion that represents type information of the strip-shaped tape and that is applied to an inner peripheral surface of the core. Preferably, the type information of the strip-shaped tape includes at least one piece of type information selected from a group consisting of a width, a length, a material, an adhesive force, and a shelf life of the tape, and the marking portion has slots ...