ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,975, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KINPO ELECTRONICS INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Printer with laminating function" was invented by Chien-Yu Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chun Jau (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Tsung-Hua Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer with a laminating function, which is applied with a laminating plastic film, includes: a printer body having a printing passageway, a paper feeding port communicating with the printing passageway, and a paper feeding tray and a paper feeding wheel set; the laminating plastic film is conveyed to the printing passageway by passing the paper feeding tray and...