ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,807, issued on July 29, was assigned to SATO HOLDINGS K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer, and method for replacing printing head of printer" was invented by Takashi Shioya (Tokyo) and Kazuyuki Hoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention is a printer including: a feed roller configured to feed a print medium; a print head configured to pinch the print medium with the feed roller and to print on the print medium; and a biasing member configured to bias the print head in a first direction toward the feed roller. The print head is movable in the first direction between a first position and a second position. Th...