ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,098, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Toner container and image forming system" was invented by Sohta Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Munetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Goshi Ozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuhiro Sato (Tokyo), Masahiro Suetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Seiya Ishikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner container includes a bag, including an opening and formed of resin film, stores toner and a leading edge portion mounted on the opening of the bag, the leading edge portion including a nozzle provided with a discharge port to discharge the toner stored in th...