ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,703, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Supply system" was invented by Shinya Yamagata (Matsumoto, Japan) and Noriyuki Fukasawa (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply system, in which each of a plurality of printers holds ink specification information for specifying a kind of ink to be supplied to the printer, includes an ink supply apparatus. The ink supply apparatus includes a plurality of ink storage units storing different kinds of ink, a plurality of ink discharging units each of which is coupled to a corresponding one of the ink storage units and discharges, to the printer, the ink s...