ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,604, issued on May 13, was assigned to SATO HOLDINGS K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer" was invented by Satoshi Fujita (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 body case; a printer cover configured to be openable and closable relative to the body case about a rotary shaft; a platen roller that is rotatably attached the printer cover; a print head configured to pinch a print medium with the platen roller when the printer cover is closed and perform printing on the print medium; a first connector disposed at a first position of the body case; a second connect...