ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,978, issued on June 3, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mobile printer" was invented by Michihiro Shimizu (Nagano, Japan), Kazuyuki Morimoto (Nagano, Japan) and Toru Matsuyama (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile printer includes: a roll body accommodating portion accommodating a roll body on which recording paper is wound; a print head performing printing on the recording paper; a transport unit pulling out the recording paper from the roll body and transporting the recording paper to the print head; a cutting unit cutting the recording paper; a power supply unit supplying a drive voltage signal to the pr...