ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,678, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printer" was invented by Yosuke Nishimura (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a feed side roll, a winding roller, a driver, a detector, a printer, a conveyance roller, and an adjuster. The feed side roll includes an ink ribbon wound on a feeding roller. The driver rotates the winding roller in a direction of winding the ink ribbon. The detector detects a change in a tension of the ink ribbon being wound. The printer prints on a print medium via the ink ribbon stretched in a tense state between a collection side roll where ...