US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Storage container for liquid cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,034, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Storage container for liquid cartridge" was invented by Masato Noda (Kanagawa, Japan), Soji Kondo (Kanagawa, Japan), Wataru Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuo Nanjo (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Iinuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Koshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Hayasaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage container includes a main body storage portion with a bottom and side walls, an opening portion facing the bottom, a first flexible rib protrudes from an inner surface of the side walls toward an inside of the...