US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on July 1 for "Printer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,015, issued on July 1, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer" was invented by Makoto Arai (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a platen roller conveying a label sheet, a first motor rotating the roller, a print head facing the roller and printing on a label of the sheet, a discharge port, a winding roller for winding the sheet from which the label has been detached, a second motor rotating the winding roller, a drive train by which a rotational force can be transmitted from the second motor to the winding roller, and a processor controlling the motors to rotate in a first direction to c...