US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 15 for "Liquid storage container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,813, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid storage container" was invented by Kyosuke Nagaoka (Tokyo), Ryoji Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriyasu Nagai (Tokyo), Kenta Udagawa (Tokyo), Hideaki Matsumura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taiji Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink bottle replenishes an ink tank of an inkjet printing apparatus with ink and includes a storage portion containing ink, a discharge port portion having a discharge port through which stored ink is discharged, and a coupling portion having a male thread portion arranged on the outside and a cover portion including a female ...