US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 14 for "Ink cartridge" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,101, issued on July 14, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ink cartridge" was invented by Shun Oya (Kiso-machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an ink cartridge including an accommodation container; and a shutter configured to open and close a supply port and close the supply port in a state where the ink cartridge is not mounted in a printing apparatus, in which the shutter is configured to open the supply port by being relatively displaced with respect to the accommodation container in a direction away from the supply port, as the ink cartridge is displaced with respect to the printing apparatus when...