US Patent Issued to Canon on July 7 for "Liquid supply apparatus, printing system, and printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,500, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid supply apparatus configured to supply a liquid to a printing unit, comprising a tray on ...