US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Cartridge and reusing method of cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,860, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and reusing method of cartridge" was invented by Hiroaki Kusano (Tokyo), Satoru Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Narumi Shinohara (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoaki Sato (Tokyo) and Junichiro Iri (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cartridge including: an absorbent; a tank including an absorbent holder configured to accommodate the absorbent; a lid member joined to the tank; and a partition member arranged between the lid member and the absorbent located in the absorbent holder. In the cartridge, the lid member inclu...