US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Printing apparatus and a liquid storage tank that has first and second ribs and an absorber for absorbing a printing agent" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,862, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and a liquid storage tank that has first and second ribs and an absorber for absorbing a printing agent" was invented by Nobuhiro Toki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Naratani (Tokyo), Hideaki Matsumura (Tokyo), Hiromasa Tsutsumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Erika Iyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Taiji Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Asada (Tokyo) and Norio Sakurai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus including a printing unit for printing on a medium, a liquid storage tank storing the printing agent and supplied with the printing agent through a pipe provi...