US Patent Issued to Canon on April 21 for "Liquid supply apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,938, issued on April 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid supply apparatus" was invented by Masakazu Nagashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Fujikake (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryohei Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromasa Yoneyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Daigo Kuronuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideyuki Nozawa (Tochigi, Japan), Tomoyuki Nagase (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuto Nitami (Kanagawa, Japan), Kichinosuke Hirokawa (Tokyo), Kenta Iimura (Tokyo) and Naoaki Wada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid supply apparatus includes a holding member configured to detachably hold a tray, on which a flexible container provided with a supply p...