ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,232, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to BIC Violex Single Member S.A. (Anoixi, Greece) and SOCIETE BIC (Clichy, France).
"Porous cap felt pen" was invented by Nikolaos Chatzigrigoriou (Anoixi, Greece), Julien Lintermy (Clichy, France), Michail Kokozidis (Anoixi, Greece) and Anestis Tsegenidis (Anoixi, Greece).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a writing instrument is provided. The writing instrument includes a reservoir for storing writing ink, a nib arranged distally to the reservoir and in fluid communication with the reservoir, a porous membrane or mesh surrounding at least a distal portion of the nib, wherein, ...