ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,495, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Cutting mechanism" was invented by Bing-Huai Zhang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Wei-Hsun Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting mechanism for cutting a label from a printing device is provided. The cutting mechanism includes a casing, a knife assembly and a lubricating assembly. The knife assembly is disposed within the casing. The casing includes a base and a movable knife. The movable knife is movable upwardly or downwardly relative to the base to cut the label. The movable knife is exposed through an opening of the casing. The lubricatin...