ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,668, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SATO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printer" was invented by Takayoshi Shimizu (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 platen roller configured to feed a print medium; and a printer cover being swingable relative to the body case and having an outer printer cover and an inner printer cover that are disposed to overlap each other. The inner printer cover is detachably attached to the outer printer cover, and is swingable relative to the body case, independently of the outer printer cover, when the inner printer...