ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,143, issued on April 14, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and printing system" was invented by Shun Oya (Kiso-machi, Japan), Akihiko Maruyama (Matsumoto, Japan), Takumi Nagashima (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yoshihiro Koizumi (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge mounted on a cartridge mounting section of a printing device having a liquid introduction section for receiving a liquid, the cartridge includes a liquid accommodating section configured to accommodate the liquid, a bottom wall on which a liquid supply section that is coupled to the liquid introduction section and supplies the liquid is ...