US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 15 for "Cartridge and printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,815, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and printing apparatus" was invented by Masato Noda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuusuke Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge is mountable to a first mount portion of a printing apparatus in a predetermined orientation, and includes a supply port configured to supply a liquid inside the cartridge to the printing apparatus and a cover configured to cover an outer periphery of the supply port and having a concave portion at a position along the outer periphery. The concave portion is fitted to a first convex ...