ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,865, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge, cartridge set, and liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Koshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Iinuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuo Nanjo (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Takenaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Kohnotoh (Tokyo), Shuhei Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kousuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daiju Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge set including first and second cartridges to eject a liquid while moving in a scanning direction in a state of being mounted on a liquid ejection apparatus. The first cartridge includes a first storage ...