ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,766, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kaori Katayama (Tokyo), Yasunori Saito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Noriko Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a carriage on which a printhead is mounted, a liquid supply portion coupled to a liquid inflow portion of the printhead and, a first operating member rotatably attached to the carriage and configured to shift the liquid inflow portion and the liquid supply portion to a coupled state by being operated in a first direction and to shift the liquid inflow portion and the liquid supply portion t...