ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,173, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid storage container and liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Taiji Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Matsumura (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Saeki (Kanagawa, Japan), Norio Sakurai (Tokyo), Daiju Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Asada (Tokyo) and Hiromasa Tsutsumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid storage container includes a storage portion configured to store liquid, an opening portion provided on a first surface and configured to allow injection of the liquid into the storage portion, a receiving portion consisting of the first surface and a wall di...