US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on June 10 for "Cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,233, issued on June 10, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge" was invented by Keisuke Taruya (Shiojiri, Japan), Taishi Sasaki (Matsumoto, Japan) and Akio Ishimoto (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge including a cartridge case in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion configured to accommodate a tape roll, and a second case portion and a fourth case portion that are separate from the first case portion, and a tape feed port through which a tape fed from the tape roll is fed out of the cartridge case,...