US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 21 for "Ink container and system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,211, issued on July 21, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Ink container and system" was invented by Satoru Oki (Nagoya, Japan), Masahiro Hayashi (Anjo, Japan), Naoya Okazaki (Hashima, Japan) and Yuma Tanabe (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink container includes a chamber, a supply port, an electrical interface, and a protrusion. The chamber is configured to store ink. The supply port faces frontward in an insertion direction. The electrical interface includes a contact surface that faces upward in an up-down direction orthogonal to the insertion direction. The protrusion is positioned upward in the...