US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on June 30 for "Ink container and ink supply device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,063, issued on June 30, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Ink container and ink supply device" was invented by Masahiro Hayashi (Anjo, Japan), Satoru Oki (Nagoya, 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 main body and a supply port. The main body includes a chamber configured to store ink. The supply port faces in a first direction. The main body further includes: a front surface positioned in the first direction from the supply port; a left surface that extends from the front surface in a second direction opposite to the first ...