US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 1 for "Inkjet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,378, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Aiichiro Otana (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste ink container includes: a plurality of receiving openings; an absorbing member that absorbs ink; a merging chamber defined by space in a reservoir region where the absorbing member is absent, and located at a position spaced at an interval from each of the plurality of receiving openings; a suction opening forming communication between the merging chamber and the outside of the reservoir region; a plurality of suction air passages defin...