ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,249, issued on June 10, was assigned to Yuyama Mfg. Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Medicine packaging device, ink ribbon running control method, ink ribbon roll and ink ribbon cassette" was invented by Tooru Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan), Satoru Ogino (Osaka, Japan), Noboru Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Tomonari Oda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a medicine packaging device. The medicine packaging device includes: a reader-writer that reads information from an IC tag installed at a supply core of an ink ribbon roll detachably installed to an ink ribbon cassette as well as writes informatio...