US Patent Issued to Canon on March 17 for "Waste ink tank and printing apparatus in which the tank includes a substantially box-shaped container provided with an insertion port that can be shielded" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,645, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Waste ink tank and printing apparatus in which the tank includes a substantially box-shaped container provided with an insertion port that can be shielded" was invented by Koki Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiaki Somano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuta Araki (Chiba, Japan), Kaori Katayama (Tokyo), Yusuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsu Hamano (Tokyo), Erika Iyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumie Kameyama (Tokyo), Nobuhiro Toki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuyuki Takanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daiju Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste ink tank including a container porti...