US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on June 23 for "Liquid discharging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,894, issued on June 23, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid discharging apparatus" was invented by Fumio Nakazawa (Okazaki, Japan), Yoshinori Osakabe (Seto, Japan), Taichi Shirono (Nagoya, Japan) and Sosuke Kuroyanagi (Nishio, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head with a nozzle surface, a reservoir section having a liquid reservoir chamber and a first atmosphere communication path, a liquid flow path connecting the head with the liquid reservoir chamber, a first switching assembly to switch states of the first atmosphere communication path between a connecting state...