US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Ink container and recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,212, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ink container and recording apparatus" was invented by Mari Nakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Naozumi Nabeshima (Tokyo), Shoki Wakatsuki (Tokyo), Taketsugu Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsunori Oya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Shiba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an ink container in which blockage of a flow path in an ink storage portion is suppressed and a recording apparatus using the ink container. The ink container includes an ink storage portion that has flexibility and that is configured to store ink in an interior thereof and an ink supply portion that i...